RaveThe Toronto StarWhat’s irresistible about this new one, though, is that it fits into my own favourite subspecies of biography: it takes a microscopic look at just one transformative moment in a life, extrapolating truths about everything that brought Marilyn to this juncture, and foreshadowing what might come. A flourishing form of late, it joins other books that I consider staples ... Marilyn in Manhattan works especially well as a Gladwellian tipping point because it marks the point when the beauty — 27 then, and on a stardom high — broke her contract with her studio and blew her pop stand in L.A.
