The Memoir of Marilyn Monroe
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 Copyright 2011 by Sandi Gelles-Cole
Gelles-Cole Literary Enterprises
P.O. Box 341, Woodstock, NY 12498
www.LiteraryEnterprises.com
ISBN 978-0-9786621-3-4
Library of Congress Control Number: 2011926612 |
June 1, 2011 was Marilyn Monroe's 85th Birthday
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Advance praise for The Memoir of Marilyn Monroe
"The book casts a spell. I was sorry it was over. It puts me in a certain mood and that mood survives the book. The way Sandi Gelles-Cole evokes the hollowness and terror of recovery I haven't quite seen before. And the incredible irony that Marilyn was hollow and terrified, yet she created something more real than any of us!"
-Author Lucia Nevai (Seriously and Salvation)
and Iowa Short Fiction Award-winner
"In her new memoir, Marilyn Monroe, and her 'editor,' Sandi Gelles-Cole, sweep away the ruthlessly exploited icon that has, it turns out, been living among us all these years. She leads us through her post-'death' life:how she survived a murder attempt, who was behind it, the struggle for sanity, relief from multiple addictions--and the reawakening of her need to love and be loved.
"Ultimately, Marilyn teaches us what it means to live a life that is beautiful precisely because it is 'ordinary.'"
Ron Nyswaner
Screenwriter ("Philadelphia" and "The Painted Veil")
and memoirist (Black Days Blue Nights)
"Sandi Gelles-Cole not only gives us Marilyn Monroe alive and well today, she also gives us Monroe as she might have been without the booze and the pills. With equal parts wit and gravitas, Gelles-Cole breathes life into a fully-fledged Monroe."
Susan Richards
New York Times bestselling author of Chosen By A Horse
"The Memoir of Marilyn Monroe is a boldly imagined and compelling look at the road not taken for one of our most beloved icons."
April Smith
Author of the FBI Special Agent Ana Grey novels.
“I thoroughly enjoyed the story. - It's a hauntingly intimate portrait of Marilyn Monroe and left me wondering
whether I ever might have run into her on the street somewhere and not realized it was her. Beautifully done.”
--Crystal McCrary Anthony
Award-winning author of Homecourt Advantage and Gotham Diaries
-Author Lucia Nevai (Seriously and Salvation)
and Iowa Short Fiction Award-winner
"In her new memoir, Marilyn Monroe, and her 'editor,' Sandi Gelles-Cole, sweep away the ruthlessly exploited icon that has, it turns out, been living among us all these years. She leads us through her post-'death' life:how she survived a murder attempt, who was behind it, the struggle for sanity, relief from multiple addictions--and the reawakening of her need to love and be loved.
"Ultimately, Marilyn teaches us what it means to live a life that is beautiful precisely because it is 'ordinary.'"
Ron Nyswaner
Screenwriter ("Philadelphia" and "The Painted Veil")
and memoirist (Black Days Blue Nights)
"Sandi Gelles-Cole not only gives us Marilyn Monroe alive and well today, she also gives us Monroe as she might have been without the booze and the pills. With equal parts wit and gravitas, Gelles-Cole breathes life into a fully-fledged Monroe."
Susan Richards
New York Times bestselling author of Chosen By A Horse
"The Memoir of Marilyn Monroe is a boldly imagined and compelling look at the road not taken for one of our most beloved icons."
April Smith
Author of the FBI Special Agent Ana Grey novels.
“I thoroughly enjoyed the story. - It's a hauntingly intimate portrait of Marilyn Monroe and left me wondering
whether I ever might have run into her on the street somewhere and not realized it was her. Beautifully done.”
--Crystal McCrary Anthony
Award-winning author of Homecourt Advantage and Gotham Diaries
This book is a work of fiction. All people and private institutions, corporate or official entities described in THE MEMOIR OF MARILYN MONROE are either fictitious or used fictitiously.
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The 49th anniversary of Marilyn Monroe’s death was August 5. I never thought much about her until I read a biography by Donald Spoto and then I began to relate to her as a woman struggling the archetypal female struggle, for identity and self-esteem.
My recently published alternate history, THE MEMOIR OF MARILYN MONROE, assumes that she did not die 49 years ago but that she that she went into recovery, made it to her 85th birthday, June 1, 2011, and lived a life spanning the space age through the digital age.
This is Marilyn’s year. The statue in Chicago and the movie are but two of the indicators that she has hit the seed cloud (not the storage cloud) that passes over the universe and is really the dictator of trending.
Perhaps this is not digital nor is it news, but you can’t not fall in love with Marilyn once you have read about her or seen her perform. She embodies joy, glee, humor, glamour, sensitivity and compassion. Though her life was all about searching desperately for a feeling of safety and love and never having it, she gave her present and the future an icon that lives to symbolize a time went sex was nice and naughty not texted between adults preying on children.
She embraced, exemplified and glorified being a woman and thereby advanced the status of being born female.
Marilyn’s insides were crushed by drugs and alcohol in a time before attending 12 step programs was acceptable. What could she have accomplished if she managed to recover from addiction? I like to think she would be out there today, inaugurating her statue, dressed in sequins and orthotics, showing us the beauty of old age.
My recently published alternate history, THE MEMOIR OF MARILYN MONROE, assumes that she did not die 49 years ago but that she that she went into recovery, made it to her 85th birthday, June 1, 2011, and lived a life spanning the space age through the digital age.
This is Marilyn’s year. The statue in Chicago and the movie are but two of the indicators that she has hit the seed cloud (not the storage cloud) that passes over the universe and is really the dictator of trending.
Perhaps this is not digital nor is it news, but you can’t not fall in love with Marilyn once you have read about her or seen her perform. She embodies joy, glee, humor, glamour, sensitivity and compassion. Though her life was all about searching desperately for a feeling of safety and love and never having it, she gave her present and the future an icon that lives to symbolize a time went sex was nice and naughty not texted between adults preying on children.
She embraced, exemplified and glorified being a woman and thereby advanced the status of being born female.
Marilyn’s insides were crushed by drugs and alcohol in a time before attending 12 step programs was acceptable. What could she have accomplished if she managed to recover from addiction? I like to think she would be out there today, inaugurating her statue, dressed in sequins and orthotics, showing us the beauty of old age.
