Chelsea girls : [a novel]
Myles, Eileen2015
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"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"--Page 4 of cover.
Main title:
Chelsea girls : [a novel] / Eileen Myles.
Author:
Myles, Eileen, author
Imprint:
New York, NY : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2015, c1994.New York, NY : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2015.©1994
Collation:
x, 274 pages ; 21 cm.
Notes:
"A novel"--Cover.
Contents:
Bath, MaineThe kidMerry Christmas, Dr. BeagleLight warriorBread and waterMy scarEverybody would go play cards at Eddie and Nonie'sThe goodbye tapesRobinMadras1969February 13, 1982Violence towards womenToys R usNeuromancerDog damageMy coupleMary Dolan: a historyPopponessetMarshfieldMy father's alcoholism21, 22, 23 ...QuietudeRobert Mapplethorpe pictureLeslieEpilogueJealousyChelsea girls.
ISBN:
9780062394668 (paperback)9781781257807 (pbk)
Dewey class:
813.6
Language:
English
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Subject:
BRN:
421526
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| narrm ngarrgu Library and Family Services | Fiction | MYLE | On reserve shelf at City Library |