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Marilyn - The Passion and the Paradox - cover

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Marilyn - The Passion and the Paradox

Lois Banner

Casa editrice: Bloomsbury USA

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Like her art, 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. No previous biographer has recognized-much less attempted to analyze-most of these aspects of her personality. Lois Banner has. With new details about Marilyn's childhood foster homes, her sexual abuse, her multiple marriages, her affairs, and her untimely death at the age of thirty-six, Marilyn is, at last, the nuanced biography Monroe fans have been waiting for.
Disponibile da: 17/07/2013.
Lunghezza di stampa: 528 pagine.

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