{"product_id":"the-boy-who-took-marilyn-to-the-prom-paperback","title":"The Boy Who Took Marilyn to the Prom - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eHenry Massie\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHardly any relationship is more fraught with unspoken feelings and words than one between a male psychiatrist and a sad female patient. It is even more so when the patient takes the therapist back to tormenting memories of a woman from his youth. In 1961, a year before her death, Marilyn Monroe's last psychiatrist invited her into his family in a desperate attempt to save the actress by giving her a family she never had. One evening over dinner the doctor suggests that his son take the actress to his senior prom at Hollywood High School, an experience Marilyn missed because she never finished school. She was 35-looking no older than a college coed-and the boy was 17. That night haunts him until 2007 when that youth, now a psychiatrist himself, takes on a patient who reminds him of Marilyn.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePraise for The Boy Who Took Marilyn to the Prom\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"Intrepid, vivid, thoughtful. It takes us inside the psychotherapy office, face to face with the dangers psychiatrists and their patients run of becoming slaves to their feelings for each other,\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e-\u003cstrong\u003eBridget Connelly\u003c\/strong\u003e, prizewinning author of \u003cem\u003eForgetting Ireland\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"Gripping and convincing,\"\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cbr\u003e-\u003cstrong\u003eCheryl Colopy\u003c\/strong\u003e, prizewinning author of \u003cem\u003eDirty Sacred Rivers\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHenry Massie\u003c\/strong\u003e is a writer and psychiatrist who lives in Berkeley, California. He is the author of the biography \u003cem\u003eArt of a Jewish Woman: Felice's Worlds\u003c\/em\u003e, and coauthor of Lives Across Time, a study of emotional health and illness. He is also coauthor of \"\u003cem\u003eMy Life is a Longing\u003c\/em\u003e, the classic 2006 International Journal of Psychoanalysis article on child abuse, and author of many other articles in professional journals. This is his second novel.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 304\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.68 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 09, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51767329718560,"sku":"9781665703642","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/05c617a5a03a4842b874a76be671f3eb.webp?v=1780309052","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-boy-who-took-marilyn-to-the-prom-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}