Queen of Desire

Queen of Desire

Main Market Ed.

Paperback (03 Dec 1993)

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Publisher's Synopsis

Focuses on 13 "moments" in Marilyn Monroe's life to create a fictionalized portrait of a sensitive, vulnerable girl, extending to offer insights on femininity, showbusiness, exploitation and rampant masculinity. Episodes such as her sexual abuse at the age of seven are examined.

About the Publisher

Picador

Picador

Picador publishes outstanding international writing, fiction and non-fiction, in both hardback and paperback, and has numerous prize winners on its list. Picador has established a reputation for literary fiction with a broad commercial appeal, groundbreaking non-fiction, (particularly, reportage, literary biography and memoir) and a formidable poetry list, which has consistently won many of the major prizes.

Book information

ISBN: 9780330322447
Publisher: Macmillan
Imprint: Picador
Pub date:
Edition: Main Market Ed.
DEWEY: 813.54
DEWEY edition: 20
Language: English
Number of pages: 276
Weight: 220g
Height: 197mm
Width: 130mm
Spine width: 16mm