Chelsea Girls: A Novel - Softcover

Myles, Eileen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0062394665 ISBN 13: 9780062394668

Verlag: Ecco, 2015

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"Eileen Myles is a genius!" -- Dorothy Allison

"A cult figure to a generation of post-punk females forming their own literary avant garde."

"Chelsea Girls reads, at its best, like the product of a collaboration between Ernest Hemingway and Lynda Barry."

Reseña del editor

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.

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, Chelsea Girls 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.

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, Chelsea Girls 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.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Ecco
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0062394665
• ISBN 13: 9780062394668
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 288