Marilyn's Last Sessions

by Michel Schneider

Overview

4.25 am, 5 August 1962, West Los Angeles Police Department ‘Marilyn  Monroe has died of an overdose’, a man’s voice says dully. And when the  stunned policeman asked ‘What?’, the same voice struggled to repeat  ‘Marilyn Monroe has died. She has committed suicide.’ If life were scripted like the movies, this extraordinary phone call would have  been made by the most important man in Marilyn Monroe’s life – Dr Ralph  Greenson, her final psychoanalyst. During her last years Marilyn had  come to rely on Greenson more and more. She met with him almost every  day. He was her analyst, her friend and her confessor. He was the last  person to see her alive, and the first to see her dead. In this  highly acclaimed novel, Marilyn’s last years – and her last sessions on  Dr Greenson’s couch – are brilliantly recreated. This is the story of  the world’s most famous and elusive actress, and the world she  inhabited, surrounded by such figures as Arthur Miller, Truman Capote  and John Huston. It is a remarkable piece of storytelling that  illuminates one of the greatest icons of the twentieth century.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781847679147
Publisher:	Canongate Books
Publication date:	11/03/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	416
File size:	587 KB

About the Author

Michel Schneider has written on psychoanalysis, Baudelaire, Proust, Schumann and Glenn Gould. His essay collection, Morts Imaginaires (Grasset, 2003), won the Medicis Essay Award. He lives in France.

Will Hobson's translations from French and German include the Goncourt Prize-winning The Battle by Patrick Rambaud, The Collector of Worlds by Iliya Troyanov, and Being Arab by Samir Kassir, which won the Index on Censorship Freedom of Expression Award 2007. He is the author of The Redstone Inkblot Test and A Household Box: Knock Knock! Who's There? We Are!.