FRAGMENTS

 

I have lately been a little more curious about Marilyn Monroe. Not necessarily as a Hollywood Icon, but as a person. This book will change your entire view. This book redefines one of the greatest icons of the twentieth century. It reveals her humanity. We can't help but believe we know all about her, as much as is out there, but there was another side to her, and this book has captured it all. 

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.

Marilyn Monroe an avid reader herself, was always captured with a book...