Lois Banner - Marilyn: The Passion and the Paradox / Мэрилин: Страсть и парадокс / Издательство: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC. Лондон. / 978-1-4088-1410-9 / Книга на английском языке.

Lois Banner - Marilyn: The Passion and the Paradox / Мэрилин: Страсть и парадокс

Книга на английском языке.

978-1-4088-1410-9

Издательство: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC. Лондон. 2012. 518 с. Твердый переплет. Формат: 155х240. Суперобложка.

Marilyn Monroe was rooted in paradox: she was a powerful star and a childlike waif; a joyful, irreverent party girl with a deeply spiritual side; a superb friend and a narcissist; a dumb blonde and an intellectual. In the fifty years since Marilyn's death in 1962, no biographer has fully recognised - much less analysed - most of these aspects of her personality. Lois Banner has. A founder of the field of women's history. Banner reveals Marilyn Monroe as only a top-notch historian and biographer could. Her credentials opened doors in researching this book, gaining her access to Marilyn intimates who had never before spoken to biographers or reporters, as well as a cache of private material previously unseen, ignored or misinterpreted.

With new details about Marilyn's childhood foster homes, her sexual abuse, her multiple i marriages and affairs, and her untimely death aged thirty-six, Banner lends nuance and authoritative detail to sketchy rumours and whispered legends about a remarkable life, and honours, as never before, the complexity of a truly immortal subject. In Marilyn: The Passion and the Paradox, a goddess of Hollywood's Golden Age is at last rendered fully human.