Marilyn: The Passion and the Paradox

Marilyn: The Passion and the Paradox
ISBN-10
1408833301
ISBN-13
9781408833308
Series
Marilyn
Category
Business & Economics
Pages
528
Language
English
Published
2012-08-02
Publisher
A&C Black
Author
Lois Banner

Description

Marilyn Monroe died on 5th August, 1962. Since then, the appetite for information about Monroe has proved insatiable. Lois Banner's new biography is revelatory. Banner had access to material no one else has seen, from a trove of personal papers to facts and anecdotes about her childhood and her death. Banner traces the eleven foster homes Marilyn went to, uncovering the sexual abuse she suffered and her bisexuality. She is also the first biographer to read Monroe's psychiatric records, revealing a woman deeply rooted in paradox. No biographer before has attempted to analyse - much less realise - most of these aspects of her personality. Lois Banner has.

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