Nobody has ever caught Marilyn more brilliantly in words than Oates Sunday Times
This masterpiece about Marilyn Monroes life is audacious, gripping and clever. A meditation on fame, exile and lovelessness, but most importantly a siren shriek against the commodification of women through the decades Rose Tremain
A fabulous reinvention of the life of a fabulous reinvention, and a cracking page-turner to boot Evening Standard
A torrentially imaginative, compulsively readable tour de force Sunday Telegraph
A mighty and a mesmerizing book Elaine Showalter, Literary Review
If you havent read Joyce Carol Oates before, start here, and now Julie Myerson, Independent
Blonde is an epic achievement, a masterpiece, a piece of art so shatteringly well-conceived and lavishly-wrought that at times it almost does not seem like a mere book Independent on Sunday
Novelists such as John Updike, Philip Roth, Tom Wolfe and Norman Mailer slug it out for the title of the Great American Novelist. But maybe theyre wrong. Maybe, just maybe, the Great American Novelist is a woman Herald
