Wake for the Angels, by Mary Woronov - SIGNED

Wake for the Angels, by Mary Woronov. 1994 hardcover. 205 pages, very nice condition. SIGNED.

Mary Woronov (1943 -) is an American actress, author, and figurative painter. She is primarily known as a "cult star" because of her work with Andy Warhol and her roles in Roger Corman's cult films. Woronov has appeared in over 80 movies and on stage at Lincoln Center and off-Broadway productions as well as numerous times in mainstream American TV series, such as Charlie's Angels and Knight Rider. Woronov's notable appearances include the 1975 cult film Death Race 2000 and 1979's Rock 'n' Roll High School (and the 1991 sequel Rock 'n' Roll High School Forever), but her breakthrough role was in the 1982 cult film Eating Raoul. She has since had roles in numerous films including Blood Theatre (1984), Night of the Comet (1984), Chopping Mall, Terrorvision, and Nomads (1986), Scenes from the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills (1989), Dick Tracy (1990), Where Sleeping Dogs Lie (1991), Looney Tunes: Back in Action (2003) and All About Evil (2010).

At times darkly erotic, funny, and brutally sad, these short stories and paintings interweave the colorful palette of language and the vividness of the painted voice. Charting a course from the sadness of childhood through vignettes that look honestly at what women settle for in glamorous Los Angeles, Woronov's runaways, punkers, housewives and bimbos bring us face to face with our own concerns about the future, death, and how to make peace. Her dark and often disturbing canvases deal figuratively with these same themes in a painterly style that is both immediate and powerful. In this unique combination of extraordinary fiction and paintings from the last fifteen years of her life, Mary Woronov has given us a new and distinct voice.