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Marilyn's Last Sessions
Marilyn dernières séances
Michel Schneider (born 1944)
Translated by Will Hobson
English editions
In EnglishMarilyn's Last Sessions
Little, Brown · United States · August 2012 · Hardcover · 416 pages
Marilyn's Last Sessions
Canongate · United Kingdom · 2012
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Mixing documentary material with invented scenes, letters and conversations, the novel reconstructs the two and a half years in which Marilyn Monroe was treated by Ralph Greenson, called Romi, a celebrated Hollywood psychoanalyst with transgressive methods. It traces both lives side by side, from film sets to the consulting room, and quotes the actress's own notes, lines and poems, showing a fragile but sharp and witty woman. Rather than tell the story in order, it moves back and forth between 1950 and 2006 and among many witnesses, circling questions it leaves open: what passed between the two of them, and how far the analyst bears responsibility for her death.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 531 pages in the original
- Genres
- Historical (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- United States
- First published
- 2006 by Grasset
- Author's age
- 62 when first published
- ISBN
9782246703716 (original)
9780316212991 (Little, Brown, United States)
9781847671332 (Canongate, United Kingdom)
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