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PublisherHarperCollins

ISBN-100062394665

ISBN-139780062394668

eBay Product ID (ePID)208708507

Product Key Features

Book TitleChelsea Girls : a Novel

Number of Pages288 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2015

TopicWomen, Lgbt / Lesbian, Literary

GenreFiction, Biography & Autobiography

AuthorEileen Myles

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.7 in

Item Weight7.9 Oz

Item Length8 in

Item Width5.3 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

Reviews"Myles's work functions as a bridge between many of the discussions of the present -- about sexual violence, class, 'hook-up culture' -- and a past from which those narratives were often secret or hidden.... It seems to resist assimilation, in part by maintaining its sense of defiance." -- T: The New York Times Style Magazine "Myles is often referred to as an 'institution'.... But the word bounces off them: there is nothing official about them, nothing staid or still. They are exemplary for more and more young writers precisely because they have gone their own way." -- Ben Lerner, The Paris Review "Reading Myles is nothing if not a physical experience, the one-two promise of a heartbeat that goes, I'm alive. I'm alive." -- Electric Literature "Chelsea Girls offers poetry, sex, Catholicism, drugs, class and sexuality. This new reprint of Myles's hard-talking, lyrical autobiographical novel, about a female writer figuring things out in the 1960s, is the missing data for anyone who has read only the male American beat writers." -- Deborah Levy, The New Statesman

SynopsisAvailable 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 their life into a work of art. Told in an audacious voice, made vivid and immediate in lyrical language, Chelsea Girls cobbles together memories of Myles' 1960s Catholic upbringing with an alcoholic father, their volatile adolescence, their unabashed "lesbianity," and their 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 writer shrugged off the chains of a rigid cultural identity meant to define them., 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.