Status
Available
Genres
Publication
Gallimard Education (2002), 383 pages
Description
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.
Subjects
Awards
Prix Goncourt (Gewinner — 2000)
Language
Original language
French
Physical description
383 p.; 7.01 inches
ISBN
2070423263 / 9782070423262
Other editions
Ingrid Caven (French Language Edition) by Jean-Jacques Schuhl (Paperback)