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Review title: Worst book of the year
Product review: The year isn't over, not even half over, but I doubt that there can be another book this bad published this year, perhaps even for a longer time. The writing, which tries to pass itself off as "poetry" (in italics yet!) reads at best like a rushed first draft, unrevised, repetitive, at times incoherent. The story itself about a "fictive" Norma Jeane is grueling. Oates uses some details from Marilyn Monroe's actual life and then shrouds it in trashy fantasies, mostly violently sexual, so ugly at times that the reader has to recoil from it, especially since those parts are linked to a real person, however fictionalized. Despite all the publicity that Oates has received because of the association to Marilyn Monroe, readers like myself will feel a strong aversion to this tawdry performance.
