Blonde

<p><strong>The National Book Award finalist and national bestseller exploring the life and legend of Marilyn Monroe</strong></p><p><strong>Now a Netflix Film starring Ana de Armas Adrien Brody Bobby Cannavale and Julianne Nicholson</strong></p><p>In one of her most ambitious works Joyce Carol Oates boldly reimagines the inner poetic and spiritual life of Norma Jeane Baker--the child the woman the fated celebrity and idolized blonde the world came to know as Marilyn Monroe. In a voice startlingly intimate and rich Norma Jeane tells her own story of an emblematic American artist--intensely conflicted and driven--who had lost her way. A powerful portrait of Hollywood's myth and an extraordinary woman's heartbreaking reality <em>Blonde</em> is a sweeping epic that pays tribute to the elusive magic and devastation behind the creation of the great 20th-century American star. </p>