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Goddess
On sale
25th March 2022
Price: £16.99
The classic, definitive biography of Marilyn Monroe, now updated in the year of the 60th anniversary of the iconic star’s death – now a major Netflix film, The Mystery of Marilyn Monroe: The Untold Tapes
‘Gets as near to the heart of the mystery as anyone ever will’ Guardian
More than half a century after her death, Marilyn Monroe is arguably still one of the most famous people in the world. Her life was a contrast of public brilliance and private misery, her death a tragedy suffused by dark questions – about her relations with President John F. Kennedy and his brother Robert. Drawing on more than 600 first-hand interviews, Anthony Summers offers the classic, definitive biography of a woman who captivated the world. Marilyn’s tragic story is clouded by gossip-reporting more than almost any other. GODDESS, however, delivers new, fully documented yet exciting fact.
‘Gets as near to the heart of the mystery as anyone ever will’ Guardian
‘The fullest factual account of Monroe’s life and death we’re likely to get’ Evening Standard
‘The definitive story of the legend’ Irish Times
‘A remarkable performance…The ghost of Marilyn Monroe cries out in these pages’ New York Times
‘Gets as near to the heart of the mystery as anyone ever will’ Guardian
More than half a century after her death, Marilyn Monroe is arguably still one of the most famous people in the world. Her life was a contrast of public brilliance and private misery, her death a tragedy suffused by dark questions – about her relations with President John F. Kennedy and his brother Robert. Drawing on more than 600 first-hand interviews, Anthony Summers offers the classic, definitive biography of a woman who captivated the world. Marilyn’s tragic story is clouded by gossip-reporting more than almost any other. GODDESS, however, delivers new, fully documented yet exciting fact.
‘Gets as near to the heart of the mystery as anyone ever will’ Guardian
‘The fullest factual account of Monroe’s life and death we’re likely to get’ Evening Standard
‘The definitive story of the legend’ Irish Times
‘A remarkable performance…The ghost of Marilyn Monroe cries out in these pages’ New York Times
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Reviews
The most authoritative account ever written about the greatest sex symbol of them all
Gets as near to the heart of the mystery as anyone ever will
Mesmerizing ... reads like something out of a Robert Ludlum thriller
Anthony Summers is one of the most highly skilled investigative reporters writing today
[Marilyn] was a genius, a sorceress who could stimulate the world's sexuality and still seem innocent, turn on a light and become 'Marilyn Monroe.' And she has become eternal. This is the most believable, useful book of all the books about her
A remarkable performance . . . The ghost of Marilyn Monroe cries out in these pages
A very fine piece of writing
The fullest factual account of Monroe's life and death we're likely to get
Convincing evidence of a crude but effective cover-up which was designed to protect Robert Kennedy