Blonde, Joyce Carol Oates
Blonde, Joyce Carol Oates
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Blonde

Author: Joyce Carol Oates

Narrator: Jayne Atkinson

Abridged: 8 hr 23 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 09/21/2004

Synopsis

The National Book Award finalist and national bestseller exploring the life and legend of Marilyn MonroeSoon to be a Netflix Film starring Ana de Armas, Adrien Brody, Bobby Cannavale and Julianne NicholsonIn 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, Blonde is a sweeping epic that pays tribute to the elusive magic and devastation behind the creation of the great 20th-century American star. 

About Joyce Carol Oates

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.

About Jayne Atkinson

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.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Fabian on October 22, 2020

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

Goodreads review by Bess on February 25, 2008

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

Goodreads review by Jaline on April 22, 2017

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

Goodreads review by Sasha on September 08, 2022

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

Goodreads review by Helene Jeppesen on April 02, 2017

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

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