Ontroerende gefictionaliseerde biografie

This biography shook me to the core and left me with an overwhelming feeling of pity and sadness. I am definitely calling it a biography although it is a fictionalized biography. The fictionalization made it possible to approach Marilyn’s life alternatively from the view at a first person angle and a third person angle. I am convinced that Joyce Carol Oates’ portrayal of Norma Jeane Patterson a.k.a. Marilyn Monroe is as close as you would ever get to the dramatically unreal and mostly very unhappy life of this star. I was relieved to finally finish the biography and, upon closing the book, I could only think: ‘poor child, poor girl, poor woman.’