Chelsea girls
Myles, Eileen2016
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In this autobiographical novel, Eileen Myles transforms her life into a work of art. Suffused with alcohol, drugs, and sex; evocative in its depictions of the hardscrabble realities of a young queer artist's life; with raw, flickering stories of awkward love, laughter, and discovery, 'Chelsea Girls' is a funny, cool, and intimate account of how one young female writer managed to shrug off the imposition of a rigid cultural identity. Told in her audacious and singular voice made vivid and immediate in her lyrical language, 'Chelsea Girls' weaves together memories of Myles's 1960s Catholic upbringing with an alcoholic father, her volatile adolescence, her unabashed 'lesbianity,' and her riotous pursuit of survival as a poet in 1970's and 80's New York.
Main title:
Chelsea girls / Eileen Myles.
Author:
Myles, Eileen, author
Imprint:
London : Serpent's Tail, 2016.
Collation:
288 pages ; 20 cm
ISBN:
9781781257807 (pbk)
Language:
English
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BRN:
1121440
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