Ingrid Caven: A Novel

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City Lights Books, 2004 - Fiction - 244 pages

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.

 

Selected pages

Contents

Section 1
1
Section 2
8
Section 3
14
Section 4
26
Section 5
32
Section 6
116
Section 7
128
Section 8
155
Section 9
157
Section 10
195
Section 11
205
Section 12
212
Copyright

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About the author (2004)

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. 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 seventeen languages. Michael Pye is a British novelist, journalist, historian and broadcaster. He has published eleven books including: The Movie Brats: How the Film Generation Took Over Hollywood, Maximum City: The Biography of New York, Taking Lives (released in March 2004 starring Angelina Jolie, Ethan Hawke and others), and, most recently, The Pieces from Berlin.

Bibliographic information

TitleIngrid Caven: A Novel
G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Series
AuthorJean-Jacques Schuhl
Translated byMichael Pye
PublisherCity Lights Books, 2004
ISBN0872864278, 9780872864276
Length244 pages
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Fiction / General
Fiction / Literary
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