BlondeNobody has ever caught Marilyn more brilliantly in words than Oates. John Sutherland, Sunday Times Oates has been fearless in taking on a subject that criss crossed almost every important strand of mid twentieth century history. Apart from her, only Don DeLillo, among today's American novelists, and no one at all among today's American women novelists, would be able to handle such a huge cast of imagined and real characters. A mighty and a mesmerising