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Subtitle: a novel
By: Andy Warhol
Publisher: Virgin
Published: 2009
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 458
ISBN-13: 9780099528784; 9780753519301
Subjects: Artists; Fiction; Social conditions
Description: In the late 1960s, Andy Warhol set out to turn an ordinary book into a piece of pop art. He said that he wanted to create a 'bad' novel 'because doing something the wrong way always opens doors'. The result was this astonishing account of the famously influential group of artists, superstars, addicts and freaks who made up the world of Warhol's Factory. It begins with the fabulous Warhol superstar Ondine popping pills and follows its characters as they converse with inspired, speed-driven wit and cut swathes through the clubs, coffee shops, hospitals and whorehouses of 1960s Manhattan.
Notes: Originally published: U.S.: Grove, 1968; London: Virgin, 2005.