{"product_id":"norman-mailerbert-stern-marilyn-monroe-9783836530088","title":"Norman Mailer\/Bert Stern. Marilyn Monroe","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book is really two books. It is a biography  and it is also a pictorial retrospective of an actress whose greatest love affair was conceivably with the camera  wrote Norman Mailer in his 1973 biography  Marilyn. Now TASCHEN has paired Mailers original text with Bert Sterns photographs from the legendary Last Sittingwidely considered the most intimate photographs of Monroe ever takento create a fitting tribute to the woman who  at the time of her death in 1962  was the worlds most famous  a symbol of glamour and eroticism for an entire generation. But though she was feted and adored by her public  her private life was that of a little girl lost  desperate to find love and security. Mailers Marilyn is beautiful  tragic  and complex. As Mailer reflects upon her lifefrom her bleak childhood through to the mysterious circumstances of her deathshe emerges as a symbol of the bizarre decade during which she reigned as Hollywoods greatest female star. This book  conceived by Lawrence Schiller  Mailers collaborator on five works  combines the authors masterful text with Sterns penetrating images of the 36-year-old Marilyn. Photographed for Vogue magazine over three days at the Bel-Air Hotel  Marilyn had never allowed such unfettered access  nor had she looked so breathtakingly beautiful. Six weeks later  mysteriously  she was dead. In this bold synthesis of literary classic and legendary portrait-sitting  Mailer and Stern lift the veils of confusion surrounding Monroethe woman  the star  the sex symboland offer profound insight into an iconic figure whose true personality remains an enigma even today. First published as a TASCHEN limited collectors edition  this book is now available in a standard hardcover version  published on the 50th anniversary of Bert Sterns Last Sitting and of Marilyn Monroes death  August 5  1962.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44933974556725,"sku":"ByrdShop_3836530082","price":337.16,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9783836530088.jpg?v=1787672214","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/norman-mailerbert-stern-marilyn-monroe-9783836530088","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}