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The Powells.com Interview with Margaret Atwood

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   The Year of the Flood

   Margaret Atwood

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"The final question, of course, and the ultimate test of Blonde's success: Do we believe it, do we buy it, and this version of her? The answer: Yes, we do believe that this is the 'true' Marilyn Monroe — inasmuch as we'll allow ourselves to believe that there is a "truth" behind an image. By the end of Blonde, not only do we feel as if we know her, we feel as if we are her. She is as searching, conflicted, confused, inspired, and passionate as we hope ourselves to be." Adrienne Miller, Esquire (read the entire Esquire review)

"In Blonde, Joyce Carol Oates has produced a stupefying novel of iconicity. Though Oates has fused some real people into composites, and invented some characters and events out of whole cloth, she has stuck vampirically close to the details of Monroe's biography....Attempting to embellish chronology with an inner life, driving her narrative not with any kind of plot but with the leitmotifs of innocence, fantasy, sexual exploitation and Hollywood baseness, Oates gets very intimate indeed." Lee Siegel, The New Republic (read The New Republic's entire review)

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Lana, April 9, 2008 (view all comments by Lana)
This book is like a 700 page poem, and reading it feels like hurtling down a dark tunnel when you know what lies at the end. You know how it's going to end, and what the whole book is leading up to, but you can't help hoping that the poor woman will get a break. Oates' beautiful, sensitive, haunting portrayal of the icon Marilyn Monroe leaves you feeling like you've just finished her diary; I constantly had to remind myself that it was fiction, and not to hate JFK too much.

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Product Details

ISBN:

9780060196073

Subtitle:

A Novel

Author:

Oates, Joyce Carol

Publisher:

HarperCollins

Location:

New York, NY

Subject:

General

Subject:

Literary

Subject:

Fiction

Subject:

United states

Subject:

Motion picture actors and actresses

Subject:

Monroe, Marilyn

Subject:

Biographical fiction

Subject:

Hollywood

Edition Number:

1st ed.

Series Volume:

2

Publication Date:

c2000

Binding:

Trade Cloth

Language:

English

Pages:

738 p.

Dimensions:

9.57x6.48x1.74 in. 2.60 lbs.