Review - Icon, The Life,Times and Films of Marilyn Monroe by Gary Vittaco-Robles

Well what can I say about this book except - AMAZING. I have been collecting books on Marilyn Monroe for 24 years now, and I thought that there was nothing left to learn about her, or nothing important anyway. How wrong could I be!!
Almost every chapter brought some new revelation, some new insight into Marilyn and who she was.
Some of the pages on her early life were especially painful to read and I have to admit on more than one occasion I found myself in tears, it is very hard to read about how much some one you love has suffered.
This volume chronicles her life up to and through part of 1956, it is a massive 780 pages long, and yet volume 2 is even longer.
The author covers Marilyn's life in a sympathetic but objective way, and the depth of the author's knowledge and research is clear on every page and the narrative will grip you from page 1 to the end leave you wanting more - so it's a good job that volume 2 will be out soon (news on that as it breaks)
The author gives a brief over view of all of her films for the new fans without it being overdone and dull for those of us who have seen all the films and know a bit about the production.

One thing, there are no photos of Marilyn inside the book!! - But to be honest, with this book they are not needed, we know how beautiful she was- but this is her story and we don't need the pictures to understand her - in this book the words are enough.

Icon is widely available, To order your copy please follow one of the links below:

AMAZON UK
AMAZON.COM
BEARMANOR MEDIA
BOOK DEPOSITORY

4.5 out of 5 - If you don't buy this book, you cannot be a serious student of Monroe - MUST HAVE.

Icon - update

Exciting news from Gary Vitacco-Robles, the price of the book has now been announced - the soft cover will be $39.95 and the Hardcover $49.95 (apparently the hardback edition will have a different cover to the paperback)
The ISBN for the soft cover is ISBN-10: 1-59393-554-4 and ISBN-13: 978-1-59393-554-2
And the book is starting to appear on the Bear Manor media blog. Click HERE to visit the blog and read about this much anticipated book.

More news as and when I get it.