| Blonde Contributor(s): Oates, Joyce Carol (Author) |
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ISBN: 0061774359 ISBN-13: 9780061774355 Publisher: Ecco Press OUR PRICE: $16.19 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2009 * Not available - Not in print at this time *Annotation: In her most ambitious work to date, Joyce Carol Oates boldly re-imagines the inner, poetic, and spiritual life of Marilyn Monroe -- the child, the woman, the fated celebrity and idolized blonde. Blonde is a sweeping epic that pays tribute to the elusive magic and devastation behind the creation of the great twentieth-century American star. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Series: P.S. |
| Physical Information: 1.28" H x 5.36" W x 8.04" (1.28 lbs) 738 pages |
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Contributor Bio(s): Oates, Joyce Carol: - Joyce Carol Oates is a recipient of the National Medal of Humanities, the National Book Critics Circle Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award, the National Book Award, and the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction, and has been several times nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. She has written some of the most enduring fiction of our time, including the national bestsellers We Were the Mulvaneys, Blonde, which was nominated for the National Book Award, and the New York Times bestseller The Falls, which won the 2005 Prix Femina. Her most recent novel is A Book of American Martyrs. She is the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Princeton University and has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 1978. |