Blonde (novel)
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| Author | Joyce Carol Oates |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | Historical novel |
| Publisher | HarperCollins |
| Released | 2000 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
| Pages | 738 pp |
| ISBN | ISBN 0060196073 |
Blonde is a bestselling 2000 historical novel by Joyce Carol Oates. It was a finalist for for both the National Book Award[1] and the Pulitzer Prize.
The novel chronicles the inner life of Marilyn Monroe. Although it follows the life of a real person, Oates insists that the novel is still fictional, with several notable name changes throughout, and should not be looked at as a biography.
[edit] Trivia
At over seven hundred pages, Blonde is Oates' longest work of fiction. In an interview she said, "I intended it to be a novella, somewhere around 175 pages, and the last words would have been 'Marilyn Monroe.' But over time, I got so caught up in her world that I couldn't stop there. The final result was this book. The first draft was, originally, longer than the version that was finally published. Some sections were shortened while others had to be surgically removed from the book. Those sections will be published separately."[2]
[edit] Footnotes
- ^ National Book Review Preview: November 04, 2000
- ^ Joyce Carol Oates. The Faith of a Writer: Life, Craft, Art. New York: Ecco, 2003.
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