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Chelsea Girls

By Mx Eileen Myles
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Chelsea Girls, penned by Eileen Myles, offers an evocative exploration of the author's life through a series of autobiographical vignettes. Set against the backdrop of 1970s and 1980s New York, the narrative weaves together strands of youth, identity, and artistic expression, capturing the raw and vibrant spirit of the era. Myles's introspective recounting highlights personal and social experiences with a vivid poetic sensibility.
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You might enjoy this book if you appreciate raw and poetic narratives exploring identity, self-discovery, and the rebellious spirit of the 1970s and 1980s. Its intimate portrayal of a countercultural life offers a vivid and candid reflection on art, friendship, and personal growth.

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Chelsea Girls

A groundbreaking and candid novel-in-real-time, considered a cult classic, from one of America's most celebrated poets.

A groundbreaking and candid novel-in-real-time, considered a cult classic, from the 'rock star of modern poetry'

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In this breathtakingly inventive autobiographical novel, Eileen Myles transforms her 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 female writer managed to shrug off the imposition of a rigid cultural identity.

Told in her audacious and singular voice made vivid and immediate in her lyrical language, Chelsea Girls weaves 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 and 80s New York.

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Eileen Myles's literary style in Chelsea Girls is praised for its contemporary feel, resonating with the works of modern autobiographical fiction writers like Sheila Heti and Ben Lerner. Critics highlight her writing as a form of activism that reveals a rich and conflicted human heart, exemplifying a unique path that inspires young authors. The novel is noted for redefining queer literature, offering a raw, lyrical look into themes of poetry, sex, Catholicism, and more, set against the backdrop of a female writer's journey in the 1960s.

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ISBN: 9781781257807

Publisher: Profile Books Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 04 August 2016

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Serpent's Tail

Edition: Main - Classic edition

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 22.0mm

Width: 130.0mm

Height: 196.0mm

Weight: 209g

Pages: 288

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About the Author

Eileen Myles is the author of more than twenty books, including Chelsea Girls, Cool for You, and most recently, I Must Be Living Twice: New & Selected Poems 1975-2014. Their many honours include a Guggenheim Fellowship in nonfiction, four Lambda Literary Awards, the Clark Prize for Excellence in Art Writing, the Shelley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America, and their poems were featured in seasons two and three of the Emmy-winning show Transparent. They live in Marfa, Texas, and New York City. Visit their website at www.eileenmyles.com.

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