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First published in Great Britain in 2011 by
Canongate Books Ltd, 14 High Street,
Edinburgh EH1 1TE

This digital edition first published by Canongate in 2011

Copyright © Michel Schneider, 2006
English translation copyright © Will Hobson, 2011

The moral right of the author has been asserted

First published as
Marilyn dernières séances
in France in 2006
by Editions Grasset, 61 rue des Saints-Pères, 75006 Paris

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The publisher acknowledges subsidy from the Scottish Arts Council towards the publication of this volume.

This book is supported by the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as part of the Burgess programme run by the Cultural Department of the French Embassy in London
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ISBN 978 1 84767 051 9
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To Marilyn

 

‘There’s always two sides to a story.’

Marilyn Monroe

 
Contents

Los Angeles, Downtown, West 1st Street
August 2005

Los Angeles, West Sunset Boulevard
January 1960

Hollywood, Sunset Boulevard
1960

Hollywood, Beverly Hills, Roxbury Drive
January 1960

Brooklyn, Brownsville, Miller Avenue
September 1911

Hollywood, Beverly Hills Hotel, West Sunset Boulevard
January 1960

Los Angeles, Downtown
1948

Santa Monica, Franklin Street
February 1960

Fort Logan, Colorado, Army Air Force Convalescent Hospital
1944

Beverly Hills, Roxbury Drive
November 1979

Santa Monica, Franklin Street
March 1960

Santa Monica, Franklin Street
Spring 1960

Hollywood, Santa Monica Boulevard
1946

Los Angeles–New York
March 1960

Vienna, 19 Berggasse
1933

Beverly Hills Hotel
Late April 1960

New York, Manhattan
Late 1954

New York, Actors Studio, West 44th Street
January 1955

New York, West 93rd Street
February 1955

Hollywood, Century City, Pico Boulevard
June 1960

New York, Gladstone Hotel, East 52nd Street
March 1955

Phoenix, Arizona
March 1956

Reno, Nevada
Summer 1960

Los Angeles, Bel Air
August 1960

Santa Monica, Franklin Street
August 1960

Outskirts of London, Englefield Green
July 1956

London, Maresfield Gardens
August 1956

Colombo, Ceylon
February 1953

Los Angeles, Beverly Hills
Late August 1960

Santa Monica, Franklin Street
Early September 1960

London, Maresfield Gardens
Spring 1956

New York, Central Park West
1957

Pyramid Lake, near Reno, Nevada
19 September 1960

New York, Manhattan
1959

Los Angeles, Sunset Strip
Late September 1960

Los Angeles, Westwood Village
November 1960

Hollywood, Doheny Drive
Autumn 1960

New York, YMCA, West 34th Street
Winter 1960

New York, Payne Whitney Psychiatric Clinic
February 1961

Los Angeles, Beverly Hills Hotel
1 June 1961

Santa Monica, Franklin Street
Summer 1961

Los Angeles, Wilshire Boulevard
Autumn 1961

Santa Monica, Franklin Street
July 1961

Santa Monica, Franklin Street
Late July 1961

Santa Monica, Franklin Street
October 1961

Berkeley, California
5 and 27 October 1961

Santa Monica, Franklin Street
Autumn 1961

Beverly Hills, Roxbury Drive
Autumn 1976

Santa Monica, Franklin Street
December 1961–January 1962

Brentwood, Fifth Helena Drive
February 1962

Santa Monica, Franklin Street
March 1962

Santa Monica, Franklin Street
Late March 1962

Santa Monica, Franklin Street
Early April 1962

Beverly Hills, Rodeo Drive
25 March 1962

Santa Monica, Franklin Street
April 1962

Beverly Hills, Roxbury Drive
May 1962

Beverly Hills, Roxbury Drive
8 May 1962

Michigan, Ann Arbor University
1969

Hollywood Heights, Woodrow Wilson Drive
April 1970

Los Angeles, Pico Boulevard
May 1962

New York, Madison Square Garden
May 1962

Beverly Hills, Roxbury Drive
21 May 1962

Hollywood, Pico Boulevard, Fox Studios
31 May 1962

Beverly Hills, Roxbury Drive
31 May 1962

Rome
1 June 1962

Hollywood, Pico Boulevard, Fox Studios
1 June 1962

Hollywood, Bel Air, Joanne Carson’s house
August 1976

Westwood, Fifth Helena Drive
6 June 1962

Santa Monica, Franklin Street
11 June 1962

Hollywood, Warner Bros Studios
December 1965

New York, Eighth Avenue
Mid-June 1962

Los Angeles, University of California
June 1966

Los Angeles, Hollywood Sign
June 1962

Los Angeles, Pinyon Canyon
Autumn 1970

Bel Air
Late June 1962

Santa Monica Beach
29 June–1 July 1962

Santa Monica, Franklin Street
25 July 1962

Lake Tahoe, Cal-Neva Lodge
28 and 29 July 1962

Santa Monica, Franklin Street
Late July 1962

Santa Monica, Franklin Street
Early August 1962

Hollywood, Sunset Boulevard
August 1962

Santa Monica, Franklin Street
3 August 1962

Brentwood, Fifth Helena Drive
4 August 1962

Brentwood, Fifth Helena Drive
Night of 4–5 August 1962

Los Angeles County Coroner’s office, the morgue
5 August 1962

Hollywood, Sunset Boulevard, Schwab’s Drugstore
5 August 1962

Paris, Hôtel Lancaster – New York City
5 August 1962

Gainesville, Florida, Collins Court Old Age Home
5 August 1962

Beverly Hills
5 August 1962

Beverly Hills, Roxbury Drive
7 August 1962

Vienna, 19 Berggasse
1933

Beverly Hills, Roxbury Drive
8 August 1962

Westwood Memorial Park Cemetery, Glendon Avenue
August 1984 and August 1962

Beverly Hills, Milton ‘Mickey’ Rudin’s law firm
6 August 1962

Santa Monica, Franklin Street
August 1962–November 1979

Maresfield Gardens
1962–82

New York
January 1964

Santa Monica, Franklin Street
8 August 1962

Santa Monica, Franklin Street
8 August 1962

Beverly Hills, Roxbury Drive
November 1978

Los Angeles, Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery
November 1979

Santa Monica, Franklin Street
8 August 1962

Downtown Los Angeles, West 1st Street
April 2006

 

New York, April 1955. The writer Truman Capote is at a funeral with Marilyn Monroe.

MARILYN: ‘Seriously, though. It’s my hair. I need colour. And I didn’t have time to get any. It was all so unexpected, Miss Collier dying and all. See?’

She lifts her kerchief slightly to display a fringe of darkness where her hair is parted.

TC: ‘Poor innocent me. And all this time I thought you were a bona-fide blonde.’

MARILYN: ‘I am. But nobody’s that natural. And, incidentally, fuck you.’

Like Marilyn’s hair, this novel is a phoney of the bona-fide kind. It is inspired by actual events and, except where changes have been made to respect the privacy of the
living, its characters appear under their real names. Locations are accurate, dates verified, and quotations from accounts, notes, letters, articles, conversations, books and films are the
protagonists’ own.

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