Chelsea Girls
"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" -- From back cover.
274 pages, 2 editions
English edition · First published 2015 by Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers · ISBN 9780062394668
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- Chelsea girls · Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers · 2015 · ISBN 9780062394668 This page
- Chelsea Girls · Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers · 2015 · ISBN 9780062394675
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