Ingrid Caven - A Novel

Informationen zum Autor Jean-Jacques Schuhl is a Parisian dandy who lives with Ingrid Caven and who had not published a book for twenty years until this one. Klappentext A novel about the life of German cabaret singer and film actress Ingrid Caven! who was once director Rainer Werner Fassbinder's star! and his wife! muse to Yves Saint Laurent! and a protege of Pierre Berge. Consisting of memories! mixing real and invented people and events! "Ingrid Caven" reveals the cold heart of the European counterculture of the 1970s! an era of celebrity glitz! cocaine-fueled excess! gay bathhouses! and young idealists-turned-terrorists. "Ingrid Caven" was an immediate bestseller in France! where it sold over 235!000 copies in its first year of publication. It has been translated into 18 languages. Jean-Jacques Schuhl is a Parisian dandy who lives with Ingrid Caven and who had not published a book for twenty years until this one. Vorwort Bookstore signings in the U.S. Booksense advance access. Freanch author will travel to the U.S. with British translator. French Cultural Institute in New York will sponser events/readings. Exerpt in Zoetrope magazine. Tie-ins with Fassbinder retrospectives - bookstores in appropriate cities should have this book. Zusammenfassung Winner of the Prix Goncourt 2000.

Product details

• Authors: Jean-Jacques Schuhl
• Assisted by: Michael Pye (Translation)
• Publisher: City Light Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.07.2004
• EAN: 9780872864276
• ISBN: 978-0-87286-427-6
• No. of pages: 250
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Literary, Fiction: general & literary, Films, cinema, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / General