

Blonde
Author: Joyce Carol Oates
Narrator: Jayne Atkinson
Abridged: 8 hr 23 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: HarperAudio
Published: 09/21/2004
Categories: Fiction, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Psychological
Author: Joyce Carol Oates
Narrator: Jayne Atkinson
Abridged: 8 hr 23 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: HarperAudio
Published: 09/21/2004
Categories: Fiction, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Psychological
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 2019 Jerusalem Prize, 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. 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.
Jayne Atkinson Starred on Broadway in The Rainmaker and in Ivanov at Lincoln Center; Off-Broadway she starred in How I Learned To Drive. Her film credits include Free Willy I and II; on TV she has appeared in The Practice and The X-Files.
YOU MUST READ THIS! Have to have to! And you will. It must be one of the BEST (FINEST) novels of all time. (& y'all know that this is the sole topic I will NEVER joke about.) Seeing the elusive, the ephemeral, through different filters--a jaguar prowling through the jungle, a baby left all alone, as......more
Finally finished, wish I were still reading, all magic is gone from life now, pls advs. This is the New Feminist Text. I honestly think if every gal too young to remember (or too young to even have a mother who actively remembers the effects of) the women's movement of the 60s were given a copy of th......more
This book was very difficult to read. Not because of the writing, which is phenomenal, but because we already know the sad ending. Joyce Carol Oates takes us on a literary journey from babyhood through to the end with a flawless, relentless depiction of the mind within the body that embarked on this......more
Joyce Carol Oates has appropriated our American wet dream, the winner of the global boner bracket, the all-time "Who'd You Rather?" champion, she's taken and made some kind of Cinderella Christ myth out of her, tarted up for the ball by her leering old fairy godfather and when the clock hits twelve......more
This book was marvellous in many ways! It's a fictional piece of work following the life of Norma Jeane Baker, aka. Marilyn Monroe, from she's a child till her death as a 36-year-old woman devoured and intoxicated with drugs, medication and alcohol. It's a tragic life story, but it's hugely inspirin......more