Marilyn: The Passion and the Paradox by Banner, Lois W. (2012) Hardcover - Hardcover

Lois W. Banner

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1408814102 ISBN 13: 9781408814109

Publisher: Bloomsbury UK, 2012

Synopsis

Banner, Lois W.

About this title

About the Author:

Lois Banner is a founder of the field of women's history and cofounder of the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians, the major academic event in the field. She was the first woman president of the American Studies Association, and in 2006 she won the Bode-Pearson Prize for Lifetime Achievement. She is the author of ten books, including her acclaimed American Beauty and, most recently, MM--Personal, which reproduces and discusses items from Marilyn Monroe's personal archive. In addition to her books on Monroe, Banner is a major collector of her artefacts. Banner is a professor of history and gender studies at USC and lives in Southern California.

Review:

Here, finally, is a book that does not sensationalise her erratic and exotic life, but reveals her as the damaged, childlike and lost feminist she was ... An excellent book ... A detailed narrative that does not scream with hyperbole, or moan with lust. It is much sadder than that ... It is fascinating ***** * Daily Telegraph * Banner presents a rich and often imaginative narrative of Marilyn's life. By the end, Monroe feels at once like an earthly being - an almost-friend - and an enigma, still slightly out of focus and just beyond reach. That seems right * New York Times Book Review * A dazzling portrait of a fragile but remarkably ambitious and determined personality, as spiritual as she was corporeal, as canny as she was careless * Elle * Banner elegantly and skillfully chronicles Monroe's short life ... [she] paints a portrait of Monroe as a complicated, many-faceted woman * Publishers Weekly * Exciting to read; Banner's admiration of, and belief in, her subject really animate the text -- Susie Boyt * Financial Times * Banner gives us a powerful portrayal of a savvy self-publicist who worked tirelessly to ensure her trajectory from glamour model to screen goddess -- Frances Wilson * Sunday Telegraph `Book of the Week' * Offers a new perspective on her story. Drawing on new material from her diaries and private papers, it's a revelatory and intelligent tribute * Good Housekeeping * Offering a new interpretation of the star's life which draws on feminism and the history of gender ... Banner's book provides the most detailed account yet of Marilyn's fractured childhood -- Joan Smith * Independent `Book of the Week' * Rigorously researched and scholarly * Daily Express * Banner sheds new light on the life and legend of Marilyn Monroe ... A fascinating portrait * Choice *

About this edition

• Publisher: Bloomsbury UK
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1408814102
• ISBN 13: 9781408814109
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 515