a: A Novel - Softcover

Warhol, Andy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0802135536 ISBN 13: 9780802135537

Publisher: Grove Press, 1998

Synopsis

Conceptually unique, hilarious, and frightening, a: A Novel is the perfect literary manifestation of Andy Warhol's sensibility. In the late sixties, Warhol set out to turn a trade book into a piece of pop art, and the result was this astonishing account of the artists, superstars, addicts, and freaks who made up the Factory milieu. Created from audiotapes recorded in and around the Factory, a: A Novel begins with the fabulous Ondine popping several amphetamines and then follows its characters as they converse with inspired, speed-driven wit and cut swaths through the clubs, coffee shops, hospitals, and whorehouses of 1960s Manhattan.

About this title

About the Author:

Andy Warhol was born in 1928 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He worked as a commercial artist throughout the 1950s before emerging as a key proponent of the Pop Art movement in the 1960s. His his famous works include the paintings Campbell's Soup Cans and Marilyns, and the film Chelsea Girls. He also published the books The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (from A to B and Back Again) and POPism. Warhol died in 1987.

Review:

"A new kind of pop artifact" * Library Journal * "Hellish hymns from Amphetamine Heaven, the vox populi of the Velvet Underground ... These people are witty and they are grand, they do terrible things and make awful remarks. Ondine is an East Village prima donna, a hoarder of gossip and finery and orgies and drugs. He is filthy, but he is funny ... The characters represent the bizarre new class, untermenschen prefigurations of the technological millenium" -- Robert Mazzocco * New York Review of Books * "A work of genius" * Newsweek *

About this edition

• Publisher: Grove Press
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0802135536
• ISBN 13: 9780802135537
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 458