The National Book Award finalist and national bestseller exploring the life and legend of Marilyn MonroeNow a Netflix Film starring Ana de Armas, Adrien Brody, Bobby Cannavale and Julianne NicholsonIn one of her most ambitious works, Joyce Carol Oates boldly reimagines the inner, poetic, and spiritual life of Norma Jeane Bakerthe 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 artistintensely conflicted and drivenwho had lost her way. A powerful portrait of Hollywoods myth and an extraordinary womans heartbreaking reality,Blondeis a sweeping epic that pays tribute to the elusive magic and devastation behind the creation of the great 20th-century American star.