The National Book Award finalist and national bestseller exploring the life and legend of Marilyn Monroe Soon to be a Netflix Film starring Ana de Armas; Adrien Brody; Bobby Cannavale and Julianne Nicholson In one of her most ambitious works; Joyce Carol Oates boldly reimagines the inner; poetic; and spiritual life of Norma Jeane Baker—the child; the woman; the fated celebrity; and idolized blonde the world came to know as Marilyn Monroe. In a voice startlingly intimate and rich; Norma Jeane tells her own story of an emblematic American artist—intensely conflicted and driven—who had lost her way. A powerful portrait of Hollywood’s myth and an extraordinary woman’s heartbreaking reality; Blonde is a sweeping epic that pays tribute to the elusive magic and devastation behind the creation of the great 20th-century American star.