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When We Were Brilliant
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AN HOMAGE TO FEMALE FRIENDSHIP AND AMBITION. LA TIMESThey were an unlikely paira blond bombshell and a photographer determined to be taken seriouslybut Marilyn Monroe and Eve Arnold would make a deal that would change their lives in this dazzling new novel from the national bestselling author of Mrs. Poe and The Woman with the Cure.In 1952, Norma Jeane Baker follows documentary photographer Eve Arnold into a powder room on the night they first meet. She has a proposition for her. Norma Jeane created Marilyn Monroe to be photographed, and she wants Eve to do it. Eve is better than anyone shes seen at revealing a persons inner truth. Together they can help each other. Together, she says, they can make something brilliant.Skeptical of this cipher of a young woman, Eve demurs. Shes looking for more serious subjects than this ambitious starlet. But she keeps getting drawn back into Marilyns orbit, and the women come to recognize something in each othersomething fundamental. Nothing will get in the way of what they want, and when Marilyns star takes off to teetering heights, neither will ever be the same.A lavish and transporting novel, When We Were Brilliant captures the halcyon days of an icon and the grit of women determining their own futures as it explores the exceptional and complicated friendship between Marilyn Monroe and Eve Arnold.
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