On September 24, 1963, Andy Warhol kissed his mother goodbye, hopped into a Ford Falcon station wagon, and set out on his first All-American road trip. Destination, Los Angeles, where Irving Blum's Ferus Gallery was mounting an exhibition of his paintings of Elvis Presley and Elizabeth Taylor. The artist's trip turned out to be more than a scenic, cross-country sprint.  It was a classic, life-changing journey that transformed the artist from Andy to WARHOL. 

From Deborah Davis, the author of Strapless, comes THE TRIP: Andy Warhol's Plastic Fantastic Cross-Country Adventure (Atria, ISBN 9781476703510), a book about Warhol's Pop odyssey and how that journey -- and the numerous artists and celebrities he encountered -- profoundly influenced his life and art. What began as a madcap, drug-fueled romp became a journey that took Warhol on a kaleidoscopic adventure from New York City, across the vast American heartland, all the way to Hollywood and back. THE TRIP provides a passenger seat view from Andy's speeding car, transporting readers from the last vestiges of the sleepy Eisenhower epoch to the true beginning of the explosive, exciting '60s. With in-depth, original research, Davis sheds new light on one of the most enduring figures in the art world and captures a fascinating moment in 1960s America -- with Warhol at its center.

Calling THE TRIP "a jaunty romp through American pop-art history," the Washington Post describes it as "an accessible and original book...with a joie de vivre that might have delighted the man himself." The Boston Globe says, "In The Trip...author Deborah Davis revivifies the era that made the man, and the man who helped define the era...a bang-up job!" And in artsjournal Charles Plymell writes, "One can learn more about the aesthetic of THE movement of the age and its art from this book than from...all the modern art history books." 

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