[nice tight copy, appears unread, faint smudging to top edge; jacket a little wrinkled along top edge]. "As E.L. Doctorow has done with Dutch Schultz or Don DeLillo with Lee Harvey Oswald, [the author] has used both the freedoms and the discipline of fiction to transform a mythical figure into flesh and blood. Toperoff creates thirteen crises in the life of Marilyn Monroe that take her from the precocious and abused ten-year-old Norma Jean Baker through an ill-fated teenage marriage to her emergence as the determined starlet who becomes America's own Venus."

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