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Roger Kahn
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Avon Books
Publication date
March 1, 1988
Binding
Paperback
Edition
Reprint
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780380704620
ISBN-10
0380704625
Dimensions
0.50 by 4 by 7 in.
Weight
0.35 lbs.
Availability§
Publisher Out of Stock Indefinitely
Original list price
$6.99
§As reported by publisher
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Summary
Retraces the love story from the couple's introduction to the height of their passion and, finally, to the different life styles and disparate values that destroyed their relationship
Amazon.com description: Product Description: He was the most famous and best ballplayer of his generation. She was Americaâs blonde. They were intense, impassioned lovers, and, long after that, gentle and loving friends. The only thing that didnât work between Joe DiMaggio and Marilyn Monroe was their marriage. Joe & Marilyn is a portrait of DiMaggio, as godlike as his legend on the field, but vulnerable and intensely human off and of a stormy Marilyn of whom it was said, âShe doesnât need a husband. She needs salvation.â After DiMaggio retired from baseball, he saw a publicity photo of Marilyn and his courtship began. She was reluctant to meet him fearing an old, vulgar ballplayer and instead finding a poised and graying manâ"a little shy, like me"âimpeccably tailored and financially secure. When they married in 1954, reporters called them âMr. and Mrs. America.â But their married life was strained from the start. She was messy. He was compulsively neat. He wanted a certain primness and she liked to show her storied body. The marriage lasted nine months. In later years as Marilyn drifted through mental illness, DiMaggio reappeared as a stalwart friend. But even he could not rescue her. In the end all that was left for him was to plan her funeral. He barred some of Hollywoodâs most famous names. Why? "Because they killed her," he told a friend.
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Reprint edition from Avon Books (March 1, 1988)
9780380704620 | details & prices | 4.00 × 7.00 × 0.50 in. | 0.35 lbs | List price $6.99
About: Retraces the love story from the couple's introduction to the height of their passion and, finally, to the different life styles and disparate values that destroyed their relationship
About: Retraces the love story from the couple's introduction to the height of their passion and, finally, to the different life styles and disparate values that destroyed their relationship
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