Jersey Bookshelf: ‘Blonde’ by Joyce Carol Oates
Joyce Carol Oates once said Blonde is the book she’ll most likely be remembered for. Its 700+ pages are a fascinating descent into the mind of Marilyn Monroe who died at age 36 in 1962. It is, though, a work of complete fiction as Oates has repeatedly said. In Blonde, she envisions just what Monroe might’ve been thinking at key intervals of her life. The subject matter is ripe for invention as there are just as many conspiracy theories on her death as there are on the death of one of her lovers, President Kennedy.
JERSEY BOOKSHELF: ‘Zero-Sum,’ by Joyce Carol Oates
Surrealism, horror, comedy, social satire, feminism and revenge are platters best served hot. Legendary writer Joyce Carol Oates, 85, is the author of 160 books. Starting in 1964 and continuing with her new book Fox, Oates, who lived in Mercer County for 32 years and taught at Princeton University, is best known for We Were The Mulvaneys, Blonde, The Falls, Daddy Love and Foxfire: Confessions Of A Girl Gang. In 2023, her Zero-Sum came out and blew my mind. The short stories in this explosive volume get weirder and weirder.
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