St Marilyn

Andrew O’Hagan

  • The Personal Property of Marilyn Monroe
    Christie’s, 415 pp, US $85.00, September 1999, ISBN 0 903432 64 1
  • The Complete Marilyn Monroe by Adam Victor
    Thames and Hudson, 339 pp, £29.95, November 1999, ISBN 0 500 01978 9
  • Marilyn Monroe by Barbara Leaming
    Orion, 474 pp, £8.99, October 1999, ISBN 0 7528 2692 1

New York – contrary to popular opinion and Frank Sinatra – is never a city that doesn’t sleep. It sleeps soundly in fact. You walk the streets on certain nights and suddenly you can feel quite alone under the buildings. It’s not that the place is deserted, there are things going on – taxi-cabs, homeless people, late-night walkers, the police – but they can seem to proceed at that hour like things out of step, like odd yearnings of the imagination, or unexpected items in a gasoline-smelling dream of urban ruin.

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[*] The Assassination of Marilyn Monroe (Warner, 671 pp., £7.99, 5 August 1999, 0 7515 2652 5).

[†] Joyce Carol Oates’s contribution will be published after Christmas.

Vol. 22 No. 1 · 6 January 2000 » Andrew O’Hagan » St Marilyn (print version)
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