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‘Ferociously smart. A rare combination of guilty pleasure and intellectual insight’ VOGUE ‘Perceptive. Refreshing. Tears away layers of false readings and conspiracy theories’ NEW YORK TIMES Intricately researched. Churchwell’s Marilyn is a complex, well-rounded creature in the best sense – the human sense’ OBSERVER There are many Marilyns: sex goddess and innocent child, crafty manipulator and dumb blonde, screen legend and Hollywood victim. In this incisive and subtle book, Sarah Churchwell looks at how the stories we tell have trivialised a woman we supposedly adore, and at what they reveal about our attitudes towards sex symbols and icons, to women, death, biography and Marilyn herself.

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Inventive and entertaining ... Churchwell seems to have invented an altogether new form of biography * LITERARY REVIEW *
A splendid metabiography of one of the great icons of the twentieth century -- BOOKS OF THE YEAR * SUNDAY TELEGRAPH *
Refreshing … [Tears] away layers of false readings and conspiracy theories * NEW YORK TIMES *
Ferociously smart … A rare combination of guilty pleasure and intellectual insight * VOGUE *
Untangles the threads of Monroe’s life story, isolating the essential cornerstones of the Monroe myth * INDEPENDENT *

The Many Lives of Marilyn Monroe

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      Publisher Bloomsbury
      Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
      Published 7 March 2019
      ISBN-13 9781526613349
      978-1526613349
      ISBN-10 1526613344
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      Biography Biography: arts and entertainment Entertainment Films, cinema Politics, Philosophy & Society Popular culture

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      ‘Ferociously smart. A rare combination of guilty pleasure and intellectual insight’ VOGUE ‘Perceptive. Refreshing. Tears away layers of false readings and conspiracy theories’ NEW YORK TIMES Intricately researched. Churchwell’s Marilyn is a complex, well-rounded creature in the best sense – the human sense’ OBSERVER There are many Marilyns: sex goddess and innocent child, crafty manipulator and dumb blonde, screen legend and Hollywood victim. In this incisive and subtle book, Sarah Churchwell looks at how the stories we tell have trivialised a woman we supposedly adore, and at what they reveal about our attitudes towards sex symbols and icons, to women, death, biography and Marilyn herself.

      Trade Review
      Inventive and entertaining ... Churchwell seems to have invented an altogether new form of biography * LITERARY REVIEW *
      A splendid metabiography of one of the great icons of the twentieth century -- BOOKS OF THE YEAR * SUNDAY TELEGRAPH *
      Refreshing … [Tears] away layers of false readings and conspiracy theories * NEW YORK TIMES *
      Ferociously smart … A rare combination of guilty pleasure and intellectual insight * VOGUE *
      Untangles the threads of Monroe’s life story, isolating the essential cornerstones of the Monroe myth * INDEPENDENT *

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