Dimensions
129 x 197 x 31mm
On screen Marilyn Monroe invented a character who was a happy girl: innocent, funny, with an extreme but unthreatening sexuality. The real woman was the opposite: self-loathing, tormented by past degradation, desperate for love and respect, yet aware that sexuality was her only dangerous weapon.
What were the dreams and demons that drove Marilyn Monroe? How did a lost little girl, moved from foster home to foster home, transform herself into one of the world's brightest stars and one of the most desired women of the twentieth century? Why did a woman who had the world at her feet fall into a pit of despair so black that suicide was the only way out?
Barbara Leaming has researched areas of Marilyn's life untouched by previous biographers to give this first fully researched, objective account of the life and death of Marilyn Monroe.
Contains black and white photographs.
