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Title: A: A Novel by Andy Warhol ISBN: 0-8021-3553-6 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: March, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.67 (6 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Best Read with Strobe Light and Pop Rocks
Comment: My favorite A book, though I am biased when it comes to the Warhola's. (hello mark:) The only book as far (as I am concerned) that truly has A's hand in it. Give all other credit to Bob Collacello(sp), as he is the true writer of most. Love to you both..
Rating: 4
Summary: It's not Clancy it's Warhol
Comment: You can't read every book and expect it to be the same form or formula. If you want your will imposed on every book you read, if you want Tom Clancy, don't read this. This is a "novel" transcribed from tapes. Andy loved tapes, tape- recorders, televsion. The tape, film, personal media explosion was only taking off at the time of this piece (book , novel, whatever). You have to come to it differently. Andy loved to fiddle with people and he loved to be fiddled. He's fiddling with alot in this book. Don't expect Tom Clancy when your reading something coming from the Warhol factory.
Rating: 5
Summary: A transcript, an artwork, not a novel. Great entertainment.
Comment: I first read this book when I was 18. Being enormously taken with it, I never returned my copy (an original hardback in paperback size with the big "A" on the front) to the university library. I ended up paying the library $272 in back dues before the university would release my diploma. It was worth every cent.
To create "A," Warhol followed and tape-recorded one Factory personality, Ondine, for 24 hours. Ondine was reportedly high on amphetamines at the time, so it was a full 24 hours involving no sleep. (Ondine was also a homosexual. He speaks graphically about homosexual sex often in "A" - that is why it was branded as pornographic in its day.) "A" is simply the transcription of those 24 hours worth of audio tape. Nothing more, nothing less. The women who were hired to transcribe the tapes reportedly got bored with their jobs and started typing the material in different layouts and formats. This formatting was left in the original book.
"A" is a collaborative work (Warhol, Ondine, Ondine's associates, the typists). It's pre-post-modern, if you will. And it is a splendid artifact from its time. It shouldn't be described or experienced in the context of literature and novels. It is an art piece, like any of Warhol's films. One does not compare the films "Empire State Building" or "Sleep" with "Sleepless in Seattle."
If you like being a fly on the wall, "A" will please you. It's like being there. Watch for references to the introduction of Pop Tarts and the release of the first James Bond flick. If you appreciate pop art and post-modernism, you'll get even more out of the book.
If you're a Warhol/Factory officianado (like me), it's great fun trying to decipher the real identities of the codenamed characters. Watch the film, "I Shot Andy Warhol" after reading "A." Much of the film's dialogue and situations could easily have been culled from the book.
"A" is quintessential Warhol: pop art as historical record / historical record as pop art.
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Title: The Philosophy of Andy Warhol by Andy Warhol ISBN: 0156717204 Publisher: Harvest Books Pub. Date: April, 1977 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: POPism: The Warhol Sixties by Andy Warhol, Pat Hackett ISBN: 0156729601 Publisher: Harvest Books Pub. Date: May, 1990 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: Andy Warhol Diaries by Pat Hackett ISBN: 0446391387 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: 01 January, 1991 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: Edie: American Girl by Jean Stein, George Plimpton ISBN: 0802134106 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: November, 1994 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Swimming Underground: My Years in the Warhol Factory by Mary Woronov, Billy Name ISBN: 1852427191 Publisher: Serpent's Tail Pub. Date: May, 2000 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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