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Title Statement | The starlet and the spy: a novel / [largetype] : Ji-Min Lee ; translated from the Korean by Chi-Young Min. |
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Author | Lee, Ji-Min |
Additional Contributors | Kim, Chi-Young |
Lee, Ji-Min | |
Publication | New York, NY: HarperLuxe,[2019]©2019 |
Edition | First HarperLuxe edition. |
Extent of Item | 199 pages |
ISBN | 006294388X (pbk.) 9780062943880 (pbk.) |
Other Number | 3604880 |
General Notes | Originally published as Marilyn and Me : United Kingdom : Fourth Estate, 2019. "Larger print"--Page [4] of cover. |
Bibliography | Includes bibliographical references. |
Summary | The author pens a dazzling work of historical fiction, based on true events, about two women: Alice, a Korean war survivor and translator for the American forces in Seoul, and Marilyn Monroe, who is visiting Korea on a four-day USO tour. Moving and mesmerizing, this is a beautiful portrayal of unexpected kinship and the surprising connections that can change, or even save, a life. |
Subjects & Genres | |
By Topic | Women translators--Fiction |
Motion picture actors and actresses--Fiction | |
Female friendship--Fiction | |
Nineteen fifties--Fiction | |
By Name | Monroe, Marilyn,1926-1962 |
By Location | Korea--Fiction--History--20th century |
By Genre | Historical fiction |
Biographical fiction |