Norma Jeane Baker of Troy

Norma Jeane Baker of Troy
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Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Total Pages : 52
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ISBN-10 : 9780811229371
ISBN-13 : 0811229378
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Book Synopsis Norma Jeane Baker of Troy by : Anne Carson

Download or read book Norma Jeane Baker of Troy written by Anne Carson and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2020-02-25 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anne Carson’s new work that reconsiders the stories of two iconic women—Marilyn Monroe and Helen of Troy—from their point of view Winner of the Governor General Award in Poetry Norma Jeane Baker of Troy is a meditation on the destabilizing and destructive power of beauty, drawing together Helen of Troy and Marilyn Monroe, twin avatars of female fascination separated by millennia but united in mythopoeic force. Norma Jeane Baker was staged in the spring of 2019 at The Shed’s Griffin Theater in New York, starring actor Ben Whishaw and soprano Renée Fleming and directed by Katie Mitchell.


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