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Norma Jeane Baker of Troy

By Anne Carson
Series: Oberon Modern Plays
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Norma Jeane Baker of Troy is a unique performance piece by Anne Carson that weaves together the lives and myths of Marilyn Monroe and Helen of Troy. Combining spoken word and song, it explores the seductive power and peril of beauty across time.
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A poetic meditation on the power of female beauty by Anne Carson.

A poetic meditation on the power of female beauty by Anne Carson.

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Norma Jeane Baker of Troy is a partly spoken, partly sung performance piece by poet, essayist, and scholar Anne Carson. It is an exploration of the lives and myths of Marilyn Monroe and Helen of Troy—iconic beauties who lived millennia apart.

A thrilling and thoughtful meditation on the destabilising and destructive power of beauty, it had its world premiere at The Shed in New York City, starring Ben Whishaw and Renée Fleming.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781786827616

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 06 April 2019

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Oberon Books Ltd

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 13.0mm

Width: 124.0mm

Height: 191.0mm

Weight: 140g

Pages: 64

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Anne Carson Arts & Culture Non-Fiction Poetry Series: Oberon Modern Plays

About the Author

Anne Carson is a Canadian poet, essayist, translator, and professor of Classics. Carson lived in Montreal for several years and taught at McGill University, the University of Michigan, and at Princeton University from 1980 to 1987. She was a 1998 Guggenheim Fellow, and in 2000 she was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship.

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