Nothing Special
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Narrated by:
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Becca Stewart
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By:
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Nicole Flattery
About this listen
Bloomsbury presents Nothing Special by Nicole Flattery, read by Becca Stewart.
AN IRISH TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023
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'A blade-sharp coming-of-age novel' SPECTATOR
'Confirms Flattery as a bracingly original writer' IRISH INDEPENDENT
'In enviably elegant prose, she manages to be both arch and deadly serious' LOUISE KENNEDY
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A wildly original debut novel about two young women navigating the complex worlds of Andy Warhol's Factory, and coming of age in 1960s New York
New York City, 1966. Seventeen-year-old Mae lives in a run-down apartment with her alcoholic mother and her mother's sometimes-boyfriend, Mikey. She is turned off by the petty girls at her high school, and the sleazy men she typically meets. When she drops out, she is presented with a job offer that will remake her world entirely: she is hired as a typist for the artist Andy Warhol.
Warhol is composing an unconventional novel by recording the conversations and experiences of his many famous and alluring friends. Tasked with transcribing these tapes alongside several other girls, Mae quickly befriends Shelley and the two of them embark on a surreal adventure at the fringes of the countercultural movement. Going to parties together, exploring their womanhood and sexuality, this should be the most enlivening experience of Mae's life. But as she grows increasingly obsessed with the tapes and numb to her own reality, Mae must grapple with the thin line between art and voyeurism and determine how she can remain her own person as the tide of the sixties sweeps over her.
Nothing Special is a whip-smart coming-of-age story about friendship, independence and the construction of art and identity, bringing to life the experience of young women in this iconic and turbulent moment.
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- Livewire
- 21-11-23
A Bit Flat
There is something rather lacklustre about this as a listening experience. The voice effectively conveys the flatness of the prose, the short sentences, the lack of narrative drive. Nevertheless, I was ultimately absorbed and I admire this attempt to imaginatively inhabit the movement.
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- Catherine Davis
- 11-05-23
It really was nothing special
It literally went no where - some good parts and well written but no story and no real point. Good narration but the story was very disappointing
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- Susan riley
- 14-03-23
awful
I love Andy Warhol and his superstars but I couldn't be bothered to finish this boring book
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