When We Were Brilliant
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Book Overview "AN HOMAGE TO FEMALE FRIENDSHIP AND AMBITION." --LA TIMESThey were an unlikely pair--a blond bombshell and a photographer determined to b...
"AN HOMAGE TO FEMALE FRIENDSHIP AND AMBITION." --LA TIMES
They were an unlikely pair--a blond bombshell and a photographer determined to be taken seriously--but Marilyn Monroe and Eve Arnold would make a deal that would change their lives in this dazzling new novel from the national bestselling author of Mrs. Poe and The Woman with the Cure.
In 1952, Norma Jeane Baker follows documentary photographer Eve Arnold into a powder room on the night they first meet. She has a proposition for her. Norma Jeane created Marilyn Monroe to be photographed, and she wants Eve to do it. Eve is better than anyone she's seen at revealing a person's inner truth. Together they can help each other. Together, she says, they can make something brilliant.
Skeptical of this cipher of a young woman, Eve demurs. She's looking for more serious subjects than this ambitious starlet. But she keeps getting drawn back into Marilyn's orbit, and the women come to recognize something in each other--something fundamental. Nothing will get in the way of what they want, and when Marilyn's star takes off to teetering heights, neither will ever be the same.
A lavish and transporting novel, When We Were Brilliant captures the halcyon days of an icon and the grit of women determining their own futures as it explores the exceptional and complicated friendship between Marilyn Monroe and Eve Arnold.
Book Details Format: Hardcover | Pages: 400 | Language: English | Publisher: BERKLEY BOOKS | ISBN: 0593815858
FormatHardcover
Pages400
LanguageEnglish
ISBN0593815858
EAN9780593815854
PublisherBERKLEY BOOKS
Publication Date2026-01-20
AccessoriesNo Accessory
ConditionNew
Product TypeHARD COVER BOOKS
Weight1.2 Pounds
Length9.1 Inches
Width6.2 Inches
Height1.5 Inches
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