Book Review Author: Lois Banner Publisher: Bloomsbury, 2012 Pages: 515 Price: Rs499 “A lot of people like to think of me as innocent, so that’s the way I behave to them. If they saw the demon in me, they would hate me… I’m more than one person, and I act differently each time. Most of the time I’m not the person I’d like to be – certainly not a dumb blonde like they say I am; a sex freak with big boobs.” Marilyn Monroe said this to British photographer Jack Cardiff in 1961, one year before she met her tragic end. Marilyn lived a life she did not enjoy. Yet that life was her choice. Why did she choose that life if she didn’t want it? Was it a psychological compulsion or helplessness or neurosis...? Why did she allow so many men to walk through her life as if her life were a public park? Did the Kennedy brothers who used her, as they did many other women, to sate their lust have anything to do with her untimely death? Marilyn died in 1962 at the ag
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