Chelsea Girls A Novel Paperback - 2015
by Myles, Eileen
- Used
- Paperback
- first
Description
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Details
- Title Chelsea Girls A Novel
- Author Myles, Eileen
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 1st Ecco Paperback Edition; First Printing
- Condition Used - Good+
- Pages 288
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Ecco, New York, NY
- Date 2015
- Bookseller's Inventory # HVD-37268-A-0
- ISBN 9780062394668 / 0062394665
- Weight 0.5 lbs (0.23 kg)
- Dimensions 8.2 x 5.4 x 0.8 in (20.83 x 13.72 x 2.03 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Mid-Atlantic
- Cultural Region: Northeast U.S.
- Geographic Orientation: New York
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Sex & Gender: Lesbian
- Topical: Coming of Age
- Library of Congress subjects Lesbians, Autobiographical fiction
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
From the rear cover
A groundbreaking and candid novel-in-real-time, considered a cult classic, from one of America's most celebrated poets
In this breathtakingly inventive autobiographical novel, Eileen Myles transforms her life into a work of art. Told in her audacious and singular voice made vivid and immediate in her lyrical language, Chelsea Girls cobbles 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 1970s New York.
Suffused with alcohol, drugs, and sex; evocative in its depictions of the hardscrabble realities of a young artist's life; with raw, flickering stories of awkward love, humor, and discovery, Chelsea Girls is a funny, cool, and intimate account of a writer's education, and a modern tale of how one young female writer managed to shrug off the chains of the rigid cultural identity meant to define her.
