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At 4:25 am on August 5, 1962, the LAPD received a phone call. Marilyn Monroe was dead from an overdose-an apparent suicide. Dr. Ralph Greenson, her psychoanalyst, friend, and confessor, was the last person to see her alive and the first to find her dead. This acclaimed novel brilliantly recreates M [...]
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At 4:25 am on August 5, 1962, the LAPD received a phone call. Marilyn Monroe was dead from an overdose-an apparent suicide. Dr. Ralph Greenson, her psychoanalyst, friend, and confessor, was the last person to see her alive and the first to find her dead. This acclaimed novel brilliantly recreates Marilyn's final years through her sessions on Dr. Greenson's couch. The doctor's intimate relationship with the world's most famous and elusive actress reveals her glamorous Hollywood life, surrounded by the likes of Arthur Miller, Truman Capote, and John Huston. A remarkable piece of storytelling, Marilyn's Last Sessions illuminates one of the greatest icons of the twentieth century, "so authentically that you often forget this is simply an imagined version of the last four years of her life" (Psychologies). She dazzled the cameras, was every man's erotic fantasy, and the woman that blinded Arthur Miller. She was a fragile and unbalanced creature, Hollywood's broken doll, and a woman addicted to barbiturates. Her premature death brought ended thirty months of work with psychoanalyst Ralph Greenson. Privileged witness to the emotional decline of a lost and lonely woman, he sets out to decipher the mystery behind the seductive and tragic myth. DESCRIPTION IN SPANISH: La actriz chispeante que enamoraba a la c mara, el sue o er tico de cualquier hombre, la mujer que encandil a Arthur Miller... Pero tambi n la criatura fr gil y desequilibrada, la mu eca rota de Hollywood, la adicta a los barbit ricos fallecida prematuramente. Una de las personas que m s se acerc a ella fue su psicoanalista Ralph Greenson. El 5 de agosto de 1962, con la muerte de Marilyn se truncaba una relaci n de treinta meses en la que l fue testigo privilegiado del naufragio emocional de una mujer perdida, solitaria y consumida por su imagen p blica. A partir de aquellas sesiones, y a caballo entre la realidad y la ficci n, Schneider busca descifrar el misterio insondable que escond a el mito m s seductor y tr gico que ha dado el s ptimo arte.