- Taschenbuch: 152 Seiten
- Verlag: Serpents Tail (7. September 2000)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 1852427191
- ISBN-13: 978-1852427191
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 19,7 x 13 x 1,4 cm
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 745.541 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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In Wake for the Angels , Woronov demonstrated both her artistic and literary gifts. Here, in this blazing memoir about her nearly lethal experiences at the Warhol Factory during the late 1960s, Woronov sticks to prose and proves herself to be a writer of awesome intensity. She begins with an unforgettable scene from her childhood that reveals the dynamism of her imagination and the depth of her alienation. These forces eventually compel her to plunge headlong into the amphetamine-fueled, sexually ambiguous, and often frankly evil world that, miraculously enough, produced the Velvet Underground and Warhol's radical films. Woronov has nothing good to say about Andy, in fact, she is breathtakingly vicious about a lot of people. Her searing humor, eviscerating honesty, and willful perversity are set within a hallucinatory, almost Burroughs-like, narrative. As Woronov describes her relationships with Warhol, Lou Reed, Ondine (known as the Pope), and other notorious characters, she transforms amphetamine's teeth-gnashing high into an astonishing array of mythic animal metaphors. This is a runaway train of a book, frightening yet exhilaratingly poetic. Donna Seaman
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Leaving Cornell University in 1964, Woronov joined the human odds and ends that congregated at Andy Warhol's famed Factory in New York City's SoHo. She soon found herself part of the stage show for Warhol's rock band creation, the Velvet Underground, and survived primarily on amphetamines. Her Factory peak, however, was her starring role in Warhol's infamous film, Chelsea Girls (1967). Woronov tells her version of those years in a highly personal and impressionistic style, befitting the author of the short story collection Wake for the Angels (LJ 9/1/94). Though the usual cast of Warhol characters makes their appearance here (International Velvet, Ondine, Nico, Billy Name, etc.), the author's account is not for those seeking a history of the Factory years, for which Ultra Violet's Famous for 15 Minutes: My Years with Andy Warhol (LJ 11/15/88) or Nat Finkelstein's Andy Warhol: The Factory Years (St. Martin's, 1989. o.p.) provide a more reliable chronicle. An optional purchase for most collections.?Martin R. Kalfatovic, Smithsonian Inst. Libs., Washington, D.C.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verfügbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verfügbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.
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Woronov's wild amphetamine-filled time in Warhol's Factory.
7. Oktober 1998
Format:Gebundene Ausgabe
Before reading this book I only knew Woronov through her delicious work as the mild-mannered murdering dominatrix in the black comedy "Eating Raoul." This book exposes her early years as an actress in Andy Warhol's Factory. It is a scary descent into a drug-filled world filled with drag queens, celebrities, hallucinations, mole people and inner demons. Woronov paints a distinctly unflattering portrait of herself as a violent would-be artist driven to the brink of insanity by amphetamines. It is frustrating because as a protagonist she is so unlikable, but at the same time the Mr. Toad's Wild Ride that she takes us on is compelling. The frustrating part of this book is that we don't really see her ultimate redemption, just her trip through hell.
5 von 5 Kunden fanden die folgende Rezension hilfreich
icily seductive
30. August 2004
Format:Taschenbuch
If you're expecting soup cans and canned supertars, you may be in for a shock. This is the squalid, squirming flip side of the swinging sixties, and Warhol is little more than an intermittent background hum. False advertising? not really, for Woronov-star of Chelsea Girls and other Warhol films-serves up a memoir tthat's both seedier, sleazier, and more sophisticated than the standard celebrity tell-all.
Woronov is icily seductive, coaxing the reader into a tar pit of sex and death, of drugs and drag queens, of the twilight zone between real life and hallucination. All-night speed binges, Velvet Underground gigs, the woman without a vagina-this freakshow is closer to David Lynch or Hieronymous Bosch than any of Warhol's dry-cleaned imagery. The book reads like a flashback; one moment you'll feel there's nothing going on, and the next you'll be sent spinning by a cunning metaphor or appalling image. A sleeper of a book, but full of strange and affecting dreams.
Woronov is icily seductive, coaxing the reader into a tar pit of sex and death, of drugs and drag queens, of the twilight zone between real life and hallucination. All-night speed binges, Velvet Underground gigs, the woman without a vagina-this freakshow is closer to David Lynch or Hieronymous Bosch than any of Warhol's dry-cleaned imagery. The book reads like a flashback; one moment you'll feel there's nothing going on, and the next you'll be sent spinning by a cunning metaphor or appalling image. A sleeper of a book, but full of strange and affecting dreams.
4 von 4 Kunden fanden die folgende Rezension hilfreich
Good.. confusing
25. Mai 2003
Format:Taschenbuch
I read this book to get more background on The Factory. I suggest that you do not buy this if you are looking for a book with background. You have to know a bit about The Factory to understand what's going on. I really enjoyed this though, and I found it very intriguing. This is the book that really got me very interested in the Factory. I highly recommend this. I am withholding one star because it was a bit confusing, with many gaps the reader had to have previous knowledge to fill in. It was insanely interesting, however.
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