In this breathtakingly inventive autobiographical novel, Eileen Myles transforms their life into a work of art. Suffused with alcohol, drugs, and sex; evocative in its depictions of the hardscrabble realities of a young queer artist's life; with raw, flickering stories of awkward love, laughter, and discovery, Chelsea Girls is a funny, cool, and intimate account of how one young writer managed to shrug off the imposition of a rigid cultural identity. Told in Myles's audacious and singular voice made vivid and immediate by ...
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In this breathtakingly inventive autobiographical novel, Eileen Myles transforms their life into a work of art. Suffused with alcohol, drugs, and sex; evocative in its depictions of the hardscrabble realities of a young queer artist's life; with raw, flickering stories of awkward love, laughter, and discovery, Chelsea Girls is a funny, cool, and intimate account of how one young writer managed to shrug off the imposition of a rigid cultural identity. Told in Myles's audacious and singular voice made vivid and immediate by their lyrical language, Chelsea Girls weaves together memories of Myles's 1960s Catholic upbringing with an alcoholic father, their volatile adolescence, their unabashed "lesbianity," and their riotous pursuit of survival as a poet in 1970s and 80s New York.
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Add this copy of Chelsea Girls [Signed, Inscribed] to cart. $307.00, very good condition, Sold by Diamond Hollow Books rated 3.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Andes, NY, UNITED STATES, published 1994 by Black Sparrow Press.
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Near Fine. Near Fine in illustrated boards, this copy is inscribed on title page to the late Peter Anastas thus: "Peter-warmly in Gloucester, Eileen Myles." From one Massachusetts writer to another. One of one hundred copies of a special edition numbered and signed by Myles--this is number 98, signed again at rear colophon with Mapplethorpe photo on verso. There were also 200 trade hardcover copies printed and 26 copies lettered and signed by the author. Original acetate jacket present.
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