Of Women and Their Elegance [*SIGNED* by Greene]

[slight wear to bottom front corner of book, small black mark on bottom edge of text block that could be a remainder mark (but I don't think it is); jacket lightly surface-worn, faint crease in top left area of front panel]. (B&W and color photographs) INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the photographer on the second front endpape (on the white area of a full-page photograph): "To Burt [Lancaster] - Wishing you / the best - Enjoy Love and / Happiness. Milton." One might have thought that Mailer was done having his literary way with Marilyn Monroe after his factoid-infused 1973 book "Marilyn" -- but no. Here, behind the veil of a somewhat misleading title, he has channeled Marilyn to produce "a fictional autobiography" -- in the author's own description, "an imaginary memoir, an as-told-to book, a set of interviews that never took place between Marilyn Monroe and Norman Mailer." Mailer's window into "the mind, the thoughts, the feelings" of MM was provided by the photographs of Milton Greene, who for a few halcyon years in the mid-1950s was Monroe's preferred photographer (and also became a close personal friend). The book uses Greene's photos exclusively -- many of Marilyn herself, of course (about one-quarter of the book's images), but also of quite a few other glamorous and attractive women (and even the occasional man), apparently to justify the conceit that the book was indeed about his fascination with women in general, rather than merely another deep dive into his MM obsession. Signed by Photographer

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ISBN: 067124020X

ISBN-13: 9780671240202

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Year: (c.1980)

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

First Edition

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