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a: A Novel Paperback – February 17, 1998

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One of the major literary works by Andy Warhol, the subject of the new Netflix documentary The Andy Warhol Diaries, executive produced by Ryan Murphy

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.

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    458 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    Grove Press
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    February 17, 1998
  5. Dimensions
    5.56 x 1.24 x 8.22 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    0802135536
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0802135537
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Andy Warhol was one of the most influential artists of the postwar era, and also produced a significant body of film work, including Chelsea Girls. He was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1928 and died in 1987.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Grove Press; First Edition (February 17, 1998)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 458 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0802135536
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0802135537
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.12 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.56 x 1.24 x 8.22 inches
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Andy Warhol, a painter and graphic artist, also produced a significant body of film work, including his famous Chelsea Girls. He was equally well known in the late sixties and early seventies as resident host at his studio, The Factory, where one could listen to Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground and rub elbows with Edie Sedgwick. Warhold died in New York in 1987.

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nameless of your business
5.0 out of 5 stars you already know if you are the type who likes weird stuff or not SO GET OFF ME
Reviewed in the United States on January 22, 2016
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most people won't like this...I think you have to be relatively self-directed to enjoy the book, as it consists of transcribed tape recordings, it is not so much served up to you as a novel by an author but rather more like a pile of files dumped on your table by an editor
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Colleen McCaskey
5.0 out of 5 stars Speeding in NYC-all night long
Reviewed in the United States on February 13, 2017
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I must admit-my brain was scattered in the beginning. But once I joined the speed trip, (mentally), I was caught up in the moment that lasted for days.
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Craig Rowland
2.0 out of 5 stars Penny pigger
Reviewed in the United States on July 23, 2011
I finished reading a, Andy Warhol's "novel". In fact, Andy never wrote one word of it. The book consisted of transcriptions of recordings made by a hand-help tape recorder. The book was intended to document 24 hours in Ondine's life. This "documentation", however, was murder to actually read. The recordings were made with a primitive (1968) Norelco (Noreco?) tape recorder with a dinky microphone. Ondine is stoned most of the time and there is no continuity to any of his speech. It was indeed a treat to read through a paragraph without having to start over to try and grasp whatever concept he intended to make. Furthermore, the people around Ondine talk openly and freely and their words are included whenever they are spoken, thus sometimes creating two or three separate conversations all intertwined with one another. The typists just typed what they heard, and there was really no need to proofread the manuscripts--I mean who the Hell would read this damn book all the way through--so the many, many typing errors stayed in. This book was, as the inner flap stated, an extension of Andy's films. To me this means an exercise in patience; a depiction of real life and real time on paper as it actually happened. Because the reader was limited to just the oral/aural realms, he had to create his own visuals. Sometimes I found my visuals all wrong and only later, after reading on and realising just what everybody was actually talking about, did I find myself going back and rereading the dialogue but this time in the right context. This book, like "Empire" or "Sleep", was more important (or created more of an impact) for what it was, than for any artistic or technical merits. I'm sure when it came out, nobody really intended anyone would read all 452 pages--it was more of an event for existing and for being what it was, than for being read. This is like the two above films: everyone would talk about a seven-hour film of the Empire State Building but no one would actually go and see it. I tortured myself and read all of a, and I can't help but wonder: did I ruin the artist's intent by reading the book? Or should its effect be strictly of wonder and as a conversation piece? Is a only to be talked about and not read? Another part of the "novel" that made continuity impossible was the frequent distortion, overlapping conversations, blasting Maria Callas records in the background, Ondine's stuttering and rapid change of thoughts and the overall inability of the typists to make any head or tail of what they were hearing. This happened on every page and whenever something couldn't be discerned for whatever reason, the typists left ellipses (...)(...)(...). Sentence fragments, solitary words preceded and proceeded by those annoying dots. It took me long enough but I read the damn thing. Now I can actually tell people I did read it. If I tell any Warhol people this or any of Andy's friends, they'd probably think I was crazy.
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Chris Aceto
5.0 out of 5 stars Good book
Reviewed in the United States on September 13, 2015
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I enjoyed that this is all transcribed from a tape, Ondine is a great character. Would recommend to anyone who is trying to have a good read!
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Miamia1212
3.0 out of 5 stars Great!
Reviewed in the United States on December 27, 2011
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Just what I ordered. Since it was labeled as a used item I expected a few tears or bends on the pages. It was still in great condition.
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Jay Reeg (jay.reeg@digital.com)
4.0 out of 5 stars A captures the peak year of the sixties experience.
Reviewed in the United States on April 6, 1998
A was written/recorded in 1965 when Andy Warhol first experimented with his new Norelco tape recorder. It wasn't until 1967/68 that the tape was actually transcribed, by Factory-ites working for minimum wage, one of whom was Moe Tucker, the drummer for the Velvet Underground. A was first published by Grove Press shortly after Warhol was shot on June 3, 1968. The original dustjacket is a giant red A -- Warhol turns Hawthorne's scarlet letter on its head. A is 24 hours in the life of the Factory denizens. A is Andy Warhol updating James Joyce' Ulysses. Whereas Joyce took 7 years to write about one 24 hour period, Warhol took just 24 hours. A includes all the gossip, pauses, stutters, and drug babble as one might expect. A just might be the only example of true "new journalism." Tape recorders don't lie. As a document of one typical day in 1965, the peak year of the great sixties decade, A is an unqualified success. Andy Warhol was at the vortex, watching/recording all from his silver throne. Warhol biographer Victor Bockris calls A "part of Warhol's great trilogy," the other two works being CHELSEA GIRLS, Warhol's 1966 3-1/2 hour film (it's actually 7 hours worth of film, since two reels are projected simultaneously) along with lp THE VELVET UNDERGROUND AND NICO, recorded in May, 1966. Get a copy of A now that it has been reissued. Start anywhere. Skip around. Read it your way. Just like the sixties.
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Thomas Spruck
5.0 out of 5 stars My Son Wanted This
Reviewed in the United States on January 11, 2014
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It did come in time for Christams for my son wanted to read this book and toild my wife and me thank you dad and Mom.
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kim girard
4.0 out of 5 stars Recommandé
Reviewed in Canada on July 12, 2019
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Une biographie faite comme un roman .tout simplement parfait .
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