Year: 2010
Author: Monroe M., Buchthal S., Comment B.
Genre: biography
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, NY
ISBN: 978-0-374-15835-4
English language
Format: MOBI
Number of Pages: 256
Fragments is an event—an unforgettable book that will redefine one of the greatest icons of the twentieth century and that, nearly fifty years after her death, will definitively reveal Marilyn Monroe’s humanity.
Marilyn’s image is so universal that we can’t help but believe we know all there is to know of her. Every word and gesture made headlines and garnered controversy. Her serious gifts as an actor were sometimes eclipsed by her notoriety—and by the way the camera fell helplessly in love with her.
Beyond the headlines—and the too-familiar stories of heartbreak and desolation—was a woman far more curious, searching, witty, and hopeful than the one the world got to know. Now, for the first time, readers can meet the private Marilyn and understand her in a way we never have before. Fragments is an unprecedented collection of written artifacts—notes to herself, letters, even poems—in Marilyn’s own handwriting, never before published, along with rarely seen intimate photos.
Jotted in notebooks, typed on paper, or written on hotel letterhead, these texts reveal a woman who loved deeply and strove to perfect her craft. They show a Marilyn Monroe unsparing in her analysis of her own life, but also playful, funny, and impossibly charming. The easy grace and deceptive lightness that made her performances indelible emerge on the page, as does the simmering tragedy that made her last appearances so affecting.
Editors’ note
Personal note (1943)
Undated poems
“Record” black notebook (around 1951)
Other “Record” notebook (around 1955)
Waldorf-Astoria stationery (1955)
Italian agenda (1955 or 1956)
Parkside House stationery (1956)
Roxbury notes (1958)
Red livewire notebook (1958)
Fragments and notes
Kitchen notes (1955 or 1956)
Lee and Paula Strasberg
Letter to Dr. Hohenberg (1956)
Letter to Dr. Greenson (1961)
Written answers to an interview (1962)
SUPPLEMENTS
Some books from Marilyn Monroe’s library
The favorite photo
Funeral eulogy by Lee Strasberg
Chronology
Literary constellation
Acknowledgments
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