Nothing Special
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In the late 1960s, Pop artist Andy Warhol set out to make an unconventional novel by following a cast of his most famous characters around New York, recording their conversations with his tape recorder. The twenty-four one-hour tapes were transcribed by four women: The Velvet Underground's drummer Maureen Tucker, a Barnard student Susan Pile, and two young women. In 'Nothing Special', Nicole Flattery imagines the lives of those high school students: precocious and wise beyond their years but still only teenagers, living with their mothers but working all day in the surreal and increasingly dangerous world of Andy Warhol's Factory, and learning to shape and reshape their identities as they navigate between their low-paid, grueling jobs and their lives at home, in a time of social change for girls and women in America.
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Sometimes I go to the library and judge books only by their cover. This one seemed interesting, and I can say it was. The writing is fantastic, and while I had no idea what the book was about going in, I became weirdly engrossed in the main character's life, just as they became engrossed in their work.
Nothing Special by Nicole Flattery is an extremely well written debut novel. It brilliantly captures New York in the sixties and the art scene that was happening then. Mae is a memorable central character.
