Finished Mo 1/28/13
My post on Good Reads-
James Ellroy could have taken this concept, and knocked it out of the park!
THE EMPTY GLASS is a fictionalized account of the death of Marilyn Monroe, however many of the events and character interactions actually happened, but unless you are an authority on the life of the actress, you can't separate 'Fiction' from 'Reality'. The novel is told from the perspective of Ben Fitzgerald, an employee of the Los Angeles County Coroner's Office, and it seems that he is being interviewed in some kind of a sanitarium after Monroe's death. The plot is exciting and moves along at a fast pace, but I really didn't learn anything about the actual case since the author never made any attempt to differentiate between using 'real' facts from speculation or invention. He treated all of his plot elements and characters with equal veracity.
From Amazon-
In the early-morning hours of August 5, 1962, Los Angeles County deputy coroner Ben Fitzgerald arrives at the home of the world's most famous movie star, now lying dead in her bedroom, naked and still clutching a telephone. There he discovers The Book of Secrets - Marilyn Monroe's diary - revealing a doomed love affair with a man she refers to only as "The General." In the following days, Ben unravels a wide-ranging cover-up and some heartbreaking truths about the fragile, luminous woman behind the celebrity. Soon the sinister and surreal accounts in The Book of Secrets bleed into Ben's own life, and he finds himself, like Monroe, trapped in a deepening paranoid conspiracy. The Empty Glass is an unforgettable combination of the riveting facts and legendary theories that have dogged Monroe, the Kennedy's, the Mafia, and even the CIA for decades. It is an exciting debut from a remarkable new thriller writer.
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