PATRICK BESSON

United States, 1989. Patrick Besson, famous French writer, arrives in the out of the way city of Bridgeport, together with his friend Christian Augé. Here he finds himself looking at a woman whose features are unmistakable: Marilyn Monroe.
So begins the journey -first mental then real- on the tracks of what seems to be Marilyn Monroe, or her exact double. What secret does this woman, now in retirement, hide - who adores French cooking? Is this really the famous icon of American cinema?
Through a series of extraordinary and unforseeable episodes, exalted by his creative and carefree vien, Besson transports us into the emotional and mental world of Marilyn, evoking the phantasies that she has always aroused in us. With ironic and irreverent tone, the author proposes an alternative reality in which Marilyn Monroe is not dead, John Kennedy has not been assassinated and the Americans have not yet landed on the moon.
An entertaining and mocking book, at times slightly nostalgic, which attempts to give a distinctly romantic, though bitter, explanation of the presumed death of Marilyn Monroe, which remains a mystery in the history of Hollywood.

Italian translation by Ilaria Piperno Thanks goes to Roberta Lanuti for her collaboration in the translation

Patrick Besson, with Russian father and Croat mother, writes in some of the most important French magazines, including Le Figuro, L'Humanité, Voici. An "Enfant prodige" of French Literature, he published his first work at the age of sixteen. In 1982 he was co-author, together with Daniele Thompson, of the novel La boum, inspired by the film Il tempo delle mele with Sophie Marceau. In 1985 he received the Renaudot Prize for Les Braban. A prolific writer, Patrick Besson has so far published more than forty works.