Now available after 20 years--Andy Warhol's only novel. Conceptually unique, hilarious, and frightening, referred to as "pornography" in "The New York Times Book Review's" original review and as "a work of genius" by "Newsweek", "a: A Novel" is the perfect literary manifestation of Warhol's sensibility. "Like "Finnegan's Wake", it remakes the language".--"The New Yorker".
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.