Opus Books: Stradella

STRADELLA
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Stradella first was published by
The Olympia Press, Paris, France, 1962,
The New English Library, London, 1966,
The Grove Press, New York, 1967,
& The Olympia Press, New York, 1968,
with more than 1.3 million copies sold in 9 editions.

Written by agreement with
The Olympia Press to include five sequels titled
The Hollywood Opera
- a comic oddessy of tragic characters -
the publisher's bankruptcies lead by 1970 to
withdrawl of the complete work, including Stradella.

It is interesting to note that this novel was banned in England
by an Act of Parliament in 1966 but was given a Foyles
luncheon launching and, on distribution, sold 100,000 copies
in its first week in London, which broke a record held by Charles Dickens.

The author created "the eating scene" in Tony Richardson's
Academy Award film Tom Jones and, with Ralph Manheim,
received the 1970 National Book Award for Best Translation from
the French of L-F Celine's Castle to Castle.
He then was silent for thirty years.

In the 1990's, old and abridged editions of Stradella had a
continuing sale on the Internet and through cult classic bookstores. A rising
demand now makes this Complete & Uncut edition available:

"The Sunset Strip novel par excellence, a very nearly perfect rendition
of the people and places of that unlikely community. A geography of the grotesque."
- Robert Kirsch, L.A. Times

"The best Hollywood novel since Day of the Locust"
- Dirk Kinane, London Times

"The writing is intelligent and fresh. Stradella is constantly fascinating, a ruined, corrupt,
funny and optimistic fantasy. [It] will, I suspect, prove unforgettable."
- Campbell Geeslin, Houston Post

STRADELLA
An older woman - a younger man
have a fling of Lust and Love.
It leads to murder and loss.
Only the reader sees who did it.
One of the great unsolved
mysteries in modern novels -
continuously in print since 1962 -
a modern comic cult classic.

Here published as Never Before -
Not One Word Cut: 301 pages
That Changed the Course of Modern Reading

"Done better than the revolution in Czechoslovakia"
- Groucho Marx

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With Original 1962 Olympia Press Green Cover
COLLECTOR'S EDITION

Chapbook, Strip Binding, Size: 5 1/2 x 8 1/2
301 pages, ISBN # 0-9661961-2-0
Retail: Each $30 + Shipping/Handling $5