Chelsea Girls - by Eileen Myles (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Originally published: Santa Rosa, California: Black Sparrow Press, 1994.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>Available once again for a new generation of readers, the groundbreaking and candid coming-of-age novel in-real-time from one of America's most celebrated poets that is considered a cult classic.</p><p>In this breathtakingly inventive autobiographical novel, Eileen Myles transforms life into a work of art. Told in her audacious voice, made vivid and immediate in her lyrical language, <em>Chelsea Girls</em> cobbles together memories of Myles' 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.</p><p>Suffused with alcohol, drugs, and sex; evocative in its depictions of the hardscrabble realities of a young artist's life; and poignant with stories of love, humor, and discovery, <em>Chelsea Girls</em> is a funny, cool, and intimate account of a writer's education, and a modern chronicle of how a young female writer shrugged off the chains of a rigid cultural identity meant to define her.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br><p>A groundbreaking and candid novel-in-real-time, considered a cult classic, from one of America's most celebrated poets</p><p>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, <em>Chelsea Girls</em> 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.</p><p>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, <em>Chelsea Girls</em> 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.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"A cult figure to a generation of post-punk females forming their own literary avant garde."<br><br>"Chelsea Girls reads, at its best, like the product of a collaboration between Ernest Hemingway and Lynda Barry."<br><br>"Eileen Myles is a genius!" -- Dorothy Allison<br>
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