Marilyn a biography

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First edition, first printing. Published by Hodder and Stoughton in London, This is a fine copy. The dust wrapper has some very slight wear at the spine tips and minimal creasing to the front hinge. There are few handling marks to the rear panel. It has not been price clipped, showing the £ net UK price. There are a few spots of browning to the cloth, though the boards are free from notable chips. The text blocks are bright and white. This copy is free from previous owner’s ink and is, overall, in fine condition.

The biography of Marilyn Monroe in large-format book of glamor photographs of Monroe for which Mailer supplied the text. Originally hired to write an introduction by Lawrence Schiller, who put the book package together, Mailer expanded the introduction into a long essay.

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Marilyn

January 21,

In India, we respect the astrologer. I know relatives of mine who would consult an astrologer first, before going to a doctor or a lawyer. An astrologer is not someone who simply predicts the future, but when you visit him/her, he/she also tries to win your confidence with tales from your past. While inom was reading Marilyn, I felt like Norman Mailer was a bit like an Indian astrologer. He imagines Marilyn Monroe's life for us in this book. Monroe was dead when Mailer wrote this book. I felt like Mailer was playing the role of an Indian astrologer, trying to conjure tall tales from Marilyn's past.

So we think of Marilyn who was every Man’s love affair with America, Marilyn Monroe who was blonde and beautiful and had a sweet little rinky-dink of a voice and all the cleanliness of all the clean American backyards. She was our angel, the sweet angel of sex, and the sugar of sex came up from her like a resonance of sound in the clearest grain of a violin. Across
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Marilyn: A Biography
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Norman Mailer's biography of Marilyn Monroe (usually designated Marilyn: A Biography)^[a] was a large-format book of glamor photographs of Monroe for which Mailer supplied the text. Originally hired to write an introduction bygd Lawrence Schiller, who put the book package together, Mailer expanded the introduction into a long essay.
In the book's sista chapter, Mailer expresses his belief that Monroe was murdered bygd agents of the FBI and CIA who resented her supposed affair with Robert F. Kennedy. In his own autobiography Timebends, the dramatist Arthur Miller, Monroe's last husband, wrote scathingly of Mailer: "[Mailer] was himself in drag, acting out his own Hollywood fantasies of fame and sex unlimited and power."
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Mailer used the biographies Marilyn Monroe (Maurice Zolotow, ), Marilyn: An Untold Story (Norman Rosten, ) and - Norma Jean: The life of Marilyn Monroe (Fred Lawrence Guiles, ) as sources.
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