{"product_id":"lean-cat-savage-cat","title":"Lean Cat, Savage Cat","description":"\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\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.\u003cdiv style=\"display:none\"\u003eISBN-10: 1646223284\u003cbr\u003eISBN-13: 9781646223282\u003cbr\u003eAuthor: Joseph, Lauren J.\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Catapult\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Catapult","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover (Feb 2026)","offer_id":46081085276357,"sku":"9781646223282","price":27.55,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0708\/6414\/2533\/files\/9781646223282.jpg?v=1776042926","url":"https:\/\/www.inveni.store\/products\/lean-cat-savage-cat","provider":"Inveni","version":"1.0","type":"link"}