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The Baby : a Video Novel by Viva is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is The Baby : a Video Novel about?

A former superstar of Andy Warhols Factory offers an intimate tale of sex, drugs, art, and motherhood, based on video recordingsThe Baby is not your average parenthood novel. Viva, a.k.a. Viva Superstaractor, writer, painter, denizen of Andy Warhols world-famous Factory, and early pioneer in video artsweaves a tale of childbirth and motherhood with often-shocking candor, exploring a new mothers mixed emotions and her internal and external conflicts. Based on filmed records created by Vivas husband, Michael Auder, of their daughters difficult birth and early development, and interspersed with stills from their life, Vivas addictive video novel tells the story of a fictional couple, Augustine and Frederick Marat, whose unorthodox parenting takes them from New York to Paris to Casablanca to California.In her own unique style, Viva explores breast-feeding and breast pumps, infidelity and incest while offering startlingly intimate details of a familys singular lifestyle. An unabashedly autobiographical literary invention, alternately outrageous and honest, revelatory and touching, The Baby is truly one of a kind.

Author

Viva

Publisher

New York: Knopf: distributed by Random House

Published

1975

Language

EN

ISBN

9780394491981

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Children'S, Humanities