![]() Her intent is not, as it has been for so many biographers, scandalmongers, conspiracy theorists and littérateurs, to unveil the real Marilyn, but rather to show that it is precisely the attempts to discover such a Marilyn that have turned her from a magazine model and movie star into an icon, a myth and a metaphor. ![]() It is this legend, more than the facts behind it - many of which, in any case, are subject to dispute - that is the subject of Sarah Churchwell's first book. Or, to put it in the terms made famous by Elton John and Bernie Taupin, her candle burned out long before her legend ever did. ![]() 4, 1962, Marilyn Monroe was 36 years old, which means that her posthumous career has by now exceeded its earthly counterpart. WHEN she died of a barbiturate overdose on the night of Aug. Metropolitan Books/ Henry Holt & Company. ![]() THE MANY LIVES OF MARILYN MONROE By Sarah Churchwell. ![]()
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