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Fragments audiobook

  • By: Marilyn Monroe
  • Narrator: Isabel Keating
  • Length: 1 hours 43 minutes
  • Publisher: Macmillan Audio
  • Publish date: October 12, 2010
  • Language: English
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Fragments Audiobook Summary

Fragments is an event–an unforgettable book that will redefine one of the greatest icons of the twentieth century and that, nearly fifty years after her death, will definitively reveal Marilyn Monroe’s humanity.

Marilyn’s image is so universal that we can’t help but believe we know all there is to know of her. Every word and gesture made headlines and garnered controversy. Her serious gifts as an actor were sometimes eclipsed by her notoriety–and by the way the camera fell helplessly in love with her.

Beyond the headlines–and the too-familiar stories of heartbreak and desolation–was a woman far more curious, searching, witty, and hopeful than the one the world got to know. Now, for the first time, readers can meet the private Marilyn and understand her in a way we never have before. Fragments is an unprecedented collection of written artifacts–notes to herself, letters, even poems–in Marilyn’s own handwriting, never before published, along with rarely seen intimate photos.

Jotted in notebooks, typed on paper, or written on hotel letterhead, these texts reveal a woman who loved deeply and strove to perfect her craft. They show a Marilyn Monroe unsparing in her analysis of her own life, but also playful, funny, and impossibly charming. The easy grace and deceptive lightness that made her performances indelible emerge on the page, as does the simmering tragedy that made her last appearances so affecting.

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Fragments Audiobook Narrator

Isabel Keating is the narrator of Fragments audiobook that was written by Marilyn Monroe

Isabel Keating won the Drama Desk Award and was nominated for the Tony Award for her Broadway turn in The Boy from Oz, for which she also won a Theatre World Award. She also starred in the long-running hit Hairspray, and made her Broadway debut starring in Enchanted April. Off Broadway she has appeared at Primary Stages, the Atlantic Theatre Company, Ensemble Studio Theatre and Ars Nova, among others. Her films include The Nanny Diaries and The Life Before Her Eyes, and on television, she guest starred in 3 lbs. and Law & Order: Criminal Intent. Isabel has recorded a number of Earphones award-winning audiobooks. Some of the titles she’s read include Bill Floyd’s The Killer’s Wife, Nicholas Sparks’s The Guardian, Jackie Collins’s Lovers & Players, and Sebastien Japrisot’s A Very Long Engagement.

About the Author(s) of Fragments

Marilyn Monroe is the author of Fragments

Fragments Full Details

Narrator Isabel Keating
Length 1 hours 43 minutes
Author Marilyn Monroe
Publisher Macmillan Audio
Release date October 12, 2010
ISBN 9781427211682

Additional info

The publisher of the Fragments is Macmillan Audio. The imprint is Macmillan Audio. It is supplied by Macmillan Audio. The ISBN-13 is 9781427211682.

Global Availability

This book is only available in the United States.

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