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Scope and Contents This book is a first edition; it was reprinted in 1998. Wikepedia: The book is a roman a clef, meaning that the fictional characters are thinly-disguised actual persons. a, A Novel is a 1968 book by the American artist Andy Warhol (1928--1987) published by Grove Press. It is a nearly word-for-word transcription of tapes recorded by Warhol and Ondine (Robert Olivo, a Warhol superstar) over a two-year period in 1965-1967. a, A Novel, Warhol's knowing response to James Joyce's Ulysses, was intended as an uninterrupted twenty-four hours in the life of Ondine, an actor who was famous mostly as a Factory fixture, Warhol film Superstar and devoted amphetamine user.[1] A taped conversation between Warhol and Ondine, the book was actually recorded over a few separate days, during a two-year period. The book is a verbatim printing of the typed manuscripts and contains every typo, abbreviation and inconsistency that the typists produced from the twenty-four tapes (each chapter is named for...

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The pages of this book depict collages of newspaper fragments that appear to be patterned after the cut-up technique of William Burroughs. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.