Nothing Special

Title: Nothing Special Author: Nicole Flattery ISBN: 9781639734665 Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Published: 2024 Binding: Paperback Language: English Condition: New Fiction 1623242 Publisher Description: A wildly original, "gorgeous . . . brave and effecting" (New York Times Book Review) coming--of age novel about a teenage girl working at Andy Warhol's Factory in 1960s New York. New York City, 1966. Seventeen-year-old Mae lives in a rundown 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 fri