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008 190514s2015 nyu g 000 1 eng d
020 $a9780062394668 (pbk.) :$cNT$595
082 04$a813.54$222
100 1 $aMyles, Eileen.
245 10$aChelsea girls /$cEileen Myles.
260 $aNew York NY :$bEcco an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers,$c[2015]
300 $ax, 274 pages ;$c21 cm.
505 0 $a"In this breathtakingly inventive autobiographical novel, Eileen Myles transforms her life into a work of art. Told in her audacious and singular voice made vivid and immediate in her lyrical language, Chelsea Girls cobbles togethermemories of Myles's 1960s Catholic upbringing with an alcoholic father, her volatile adolescence, her unabashed 'lesbianity,' and her riotous pursuit of survival as a poet in 1970s New York. Suffused with alcohol, drugs, and sex; evocative in its depictions of the hardscrabble realities of a young artist's life; with raw, flickering stories of awkward love, humor, and discovery, Chelsea Girls is a funny, cool, and intimate account of a writer's education, and a modern tale ofhow one young female writer managed to shrug off the chains of the rigid cultural identity meant to define her"--Page 4 of cover
650 0$aYoung women$vFiction.
650 0$aLesbians$vFiction.
650 0$aChelsea (Manhattan, New York, N.Y.)$vFiction.
650 0$aAutobiographical fiction.