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last updated Sep 09, 2025 10:49PM
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The sad life of Valerie Jean Solanas, raped from the age of seven and selling herself for money before gaining fame as the almost killer of Andy Warhol, told in a fragmented, kaleidoscopic manner
I couldn’t take living like a lobotomised brood cow, and the world around me couldn’t take that.
I remember seeing a movie on the attempted murder on Andy Warhol at the Rotterdam Film Festival and this book takes the same concept, but brings it much further. We are exposed to glimpses of the life of Valer ...more
I couldn’t take living like a lobotomised brood cow, and the world around me couldn’t take that.
I remember seeing a movie on the attempted murder on Andy Warhol at the Rotterdam Film Festival and this book takes the same concept, but brings it much further. We are exposed to glimpses of the life of Valer ...more
This fictional account of the life of Valerie Solanas is presented in snippets of conversations, snapshots of scenes, angry monologues offered in a non-chronological order. The writing is outstanding, but I did not enjoy the experience of reading this novel. I suspect that I would have reacted differently if I had known about Solanas.
Intriguing novel which is a fictionalised account of the life and death of Valerie Solanas, radical feminist, who shot Andy Warhol in 1968. It is written in a fragmentary style with recurring themes and images, switching between three main timelines - Valerie’s abusive and neglectful childhood in the 1950s, the 1960s with her studies and career, meeting and shooting Warhol, her trial and time spent in psychiatric hospitals, and her death as a destitute in 1988.
It is important to note that Strids ...more
It is important to note that Strids ...more
Fictionalized account of Valerie Solanas, who famously shot and nearly killed Andy Warhol, though that is not the main storyline of her life. Horrific childhood sexual abuse, profound neglect, and deep mental illness are the storyline. Experimental in form and mostly successful in the experiment. But profoundly tragic and for that reason very hard to read.
Apr 13, 2025
Nidhi Kumari
marked it as to-read
May 04, 2025
Heather(Gibby)
marked it as maybe
