{"product_id":"lean-cat-savage-cat-hardcover","title":"Lean Cat, Savage Cat - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA riotous and raunchy novel about a woman whose search for Romy Haag, one of David Bowie's former lovers, is sidelined when she falls into a deep obsession with a musician, who is often compared to Bowie, in pursuit of stardom \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eLean Cat, Savage Cat\u003c\/i\u003e is the book that's been missing from my reading habits: classically glamourous, timelessly seductive. Lauren J. Joseph is a wit and an assassin from one sentence to the next\" --Torrey Peters, author of \u003ci\u003eDetransition, Baby\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAlone at a party, sipping her celery sour, Charli knows she's in a rut. Kicking around with the rest of London's bohemian dropouts, she has no idea what to do with her arts degree and her research project on Romy Haag--the transsexual disco singer and long-time lover of David Bowie--has all but stalled out. But her life takes a turn when she bumps into the mysterious Alexander Geist. Androgynously, glamorously handsome, he feels something like a soul mate, another love once lost and now found. Naturally, when he leaves for Berlin, Charli follows. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThere, at the center of the city's febrile party scene, Charli and Alexander embark on their great project: turn Alexander into the greatest pop star since David Bowie. But Alexander is elusive, mercurial; Charli is in over her head before she realizes just how self-destructive her life has become under his spell. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eLean Cat, Savage Cat\u003c\/i\u003e is Isherwood one-hundred years on, it's Nancy Mitford in the dark room, Bret Easton-Ellis amongst a raft of European low-lives scrabbling for success. It is the story of setting out in search of one thing and finding yourself in possession of something quite different, a book about obsession and excess, doppelgängers and disassociation, fame and fandom, the tyrannical return of unprocessed grief, and the terrible things we do to feel loved.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50102280519903,"sku":"9781646223282","price":29.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/AoTFrOcQfo9781646223282.webp?v=1781079274","url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/products\/lean-cat-savage-cat-hardcover","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}