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1 online resource (1 audio file (4hr., 26 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
| Performer |
Read by Janet Song. |
| Summary |
A dazzling work of historical fiction, based on true events, about two women who seem the most unlikely to ever meet: Alice, a Korean war survivor and translator for the American forces in Seoul and Marilyn Monroe, who is visiting Korea on a four-day USO tour. February 1954. Although the Korean War armistice was signed a year ago, most citizens of Seoul still battle to return to some semblance of normalcy. Conditions are dismal. Children beg for food, and orphanages are teeming. Alice J. Kim, a Korean translator and typist for the American forces still sanctioned in the city, yearns for the life she used to live before her country was torn apart. Then Alice's boss makes an announcement-the American movie star Marilyn Monroe will be visiting Korea on a four-day USO tour, and Alice has been chosen as her translator. Though intrigued, Alice has few expectations of the job-what could she and a beautiful actress at the peak of her fame possibly have to talk about? Yet the Marilyn she meets, while just as dazzling and sensual as Alice expected, is also surprisingly approachable. As Marilyn's visit unfolds, Alice is forced into a reckoning with her own painful past. Moving and mesmerizing, The Starlet and the Spy is a beautiful portrayal of unexpected kinship between two very different women, and of the surprising connections that can change, or even save, a life. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Monroe, Marilyn, 1926-1962 -- Fiction.
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Motion picture actors and actresses -- Fiction.
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Administrative assistants -- Fiction.
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Women translators -- Fiction.
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Female friendship -- Fiction.
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Nineteen fifties -- Fiction.
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Korea -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.
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| Added Author |
Song, Janet, narrator.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9780062958952 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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006295895X (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT12406990 |
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