''A wry, witty and wonderful novel from a brilliantly captivating storyteller'' JOSEPH O''CONNOR''Nothing Special casts such a stylish and transportive spell . . . I-ll never again ride an escalator without thinking of this book'' SLOANE CROSLEYIn 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,
