Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Fragments: Poems, Intimate Notes, Letters
    Fragments: Poems, Intimate Notes, Letters
    Fragments: Poems, Intimate Notes, Letters
    Audiobook (abridged)1 hour

    Fragments: Poems, Intimate Notes, Letters

    Written by Marilyn Monroe

    Narrated by Isabel Keating

    4.5/5

    ()

    Switch to ebook

    About this audiobook

    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.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Audio
    Release dateOct 12, 2010
    ISBN9781427211682
    Author

    Marilyn Monroe

    Marilyn Monroe was the defining actress of her age. Acclaimed for her performances in Some Like It Hot, The Seven Year Itch and many other films, Monroe also studied with Lee Strasberg at the Actors Studio. She died in 1962.

    Related to Fragments

    Related audiobooks

    Entertainers and the Rich & Famous For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Elizabeth Taylor A Life In Photos

      Oct 6, 2021

      Elizabeth Taylor A Life In Photos
      2 min read

    • Article

      Collins Ferry Landing

      Jul 1, 2020

      for my father Only rivers bottom out like this.Only rivers bottom out with this kind of conviction.Not humans, or, at least, not humans asindisputably human as you were,trapped in consciousness’s surplus, exilic,animalized absurdity, writhing in its

      5 min read

    • Article

      Finding The Words

      Jun 3, 2023

      Finding The Words
      5 min read

    • Article

      Finding The Words

      Jun 2, 2023

      Finding The Words
      5 min read

    • Article

      This is The End

      Feb 21, 2020

      This is The End
      6 min read

    • Article

      The Final Truth

      Jan 21, 2020

      The Final Truth
      5 min read

    • Article

      Exhaling

      Dec 7, 2021

      Around me are fifty or so men, in whose company I will sit and be silent for ten days. I eye them discreetly, wondering who among them is going through a crisis. Who, like me, has a family. Who’s single, who’s been dumped, who’s poor or unhappy. Who’

      52 min read

    • Article

      Henry Winkler

      Jan 8, 2024

      Henry Winkler
      6 min read

    • Article

      Sigrid Nunez

      Sep 15, 2017

      During the 1980s, in California, a large number of Cambodian women went to their doctors with the same complaint: they could not see. The women were all war refugees. Before fleeing their homeland, they had witnessed the atrocities for which the Khme

      23 min read

    • Article

      The Loneliest Number

      Oct 10, 2022

      “Doctor Blume,” I whispered, “I’m tripolar.” Doctor Blume pursed her lips, leaned back in her brown leather desk chair, removed her horn-rimmed spectacles, and began polishing them with the end of her cornflower blue cashmere cardigan. Then, slowly,

      20 min read

    • Article

      Ben Marcus

      Jun 15, 2018

      My wife, Gin, once knocked gently on my head, as if it were a door. “Hello,” she kept saying. “Hello. Who’s in there?” She and our therapist, Dr. Sherby, laughed a little about this, so I did, too. What fun. Keep knocking on my head like that, like i

      23 min read

    • Article

      Learning to Grieve

      Sep 1, 2020

      Learning to Grieve
      9 min read

    • Article

      Danelle Bergstrom

      Aug 24, 2016

      Danelle Bergstrom
      6 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for Fragments

    4.5/5

    8 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words