Misfit
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- $26.99
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- $26.99
Publisher Description
« Lorsqu’elle entre, sa présence transforme la salle, à un point incroyable. Comme un gigantesque souffle. Vêtue de noir, elle force l’attention de la Villa Nova, tandis qu’elle avance avec une lenteur étudiée jusqu’à la table. On dirait que la salle s’est éclairée, que les flammes des chandelles sont plus hautes. »
C’est une apparition : rayonnante, évidente, animale. Elle est au firmament, et pourtant rien ne la sauvera. Ni son mariage avec DiMaggio. Ni Sinatra, ni Arthur Miller, ni ses amis. Sa vie ? Une suite de scènes indélébiles. Pour en écrire le film, Adam Braver multiplie les angles et ménage la tension dramatique avec un extraordinaire sens du détail.
Son approche libre, sensible, invite à redessiner soi-même, au fil de la lecture, l’identité d’une Marilyn vulnérable, qui fuit et se cache dans son propre mystère.
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In his latest historical reimagining (after taking on JFK's assassination in his novel Nov 22, 1963), Braver explores Marilyn Monroe's fatal struggle to simultaneously maintain her personal identity and her public image. The novel is set during the last weekend of Monroe's life, an ill-fated attempt to "disappear for a while" to Frank Sinatra's Cal Neva Lodge at Lake Tahoe and escape the demands of Hollywood's "industry clowns." From that dark, paranoid weekend, Braver delves into the events of Monroe's past from being discovered by an army photographer while working in a wartime factory through her failed marriages to Joe DiMaggio and Arthur Miller injecting each scene with a swelling sense of melancholia. We see her wrestling with image and reality both at her wedding to DiMaggio, in which her gaze towards the cameras reveals "not romance but the belief in it," and in her therapy sessions where she realizes that her old life as "Norma Jeane was ended years ago." Seamlessly blending fact and fiction, Braver penetrates the vivacious veneer of Monroe's on-screen persona to reveal a woman so adept at embodying a role, that "it swallows her whole." Through his gradual unfolding of Monroe's painful upbringing and her desire to be taken seriously in a world that values the superficial, Braver makes Monroe's tragic end freshly poignant.
