Fragments
Poems, Intimate Notes, Letters
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Publisher Description
An Intimate Portrait of an Icon: Marilyn Monroe's Never-Before-Seen Writings and Photos
Fragments is an unforgettable book that redefines one of the greatest icons of the twentieth century, revealing Marilyn Monroe's humanity nearly fifty years after her death. While Marilyn's image is universally recognized, her serious gifts as an actor were sometimes eclipsed by her notoriety and the way the camera fell helplessly in love with her.
Now, for the first time, readers can meet the private Marilyn and understand her in a way we never have before. Beyond the headlines and too-familiar stories of heartbreak and desolation was a woman far more curious, searching, witty, and hopeful than the one the world got to know. Fragments is an unprecedented collection of Marilyn's own handwritten artifacts—notes to herself, letters, and even poems—never before published, along with rarely seen intimate photos.
Jotted in notebooks, typed on paper, or written on hotel letterhead, these texts reveal a woman who loved deeply, strove to perfect her craft, and was unsparing in her self-analysis. Marilyn's easy grace, deceptive lightness, and simmering tragedy emerge on the page, making this an essential read for anyone seeking to understand the woman behind the icon.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Isabel Keating is a fine mimic of the Marilyn we know from the movies it s the same breathy, cotton-candy douceur, the voice lilting with wonderment, the same rounded consonants, the trill at the end of sentences. She sounds like a precocious child, very earnestly doing the introspective self-searching homework that the Strasberg method demanded. As seamless is Keating s channeling of Monroe; it would have been a pleasure to glimpse the voice behind the baby voice, the woman behind the mask. The content is fragmentary, but there is delight in this picture of the icon as more sincere, striving, intellectually ambitious, and perceptive than we d ever have guessed. A Farrar, Straus, and Giroux hardcover.
