{"product_id":"chelsea-girls-a-novel-isbn-9780062394668","title":"Chelsea Girls: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eAvailable 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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, \u003cem\u003eChelsea Girls\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSuffused 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, \u003cem\u003eChelsea Girls\u003c\/em\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003eA groundbreaking and candid novel-in-real-time, considered a cult classic, from one of America's most celebrated poets\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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, \u003cem\u003eChelsea Girls\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSuffused 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, \u003cem\u003eChelsea Girls\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003e“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.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBen Lerner, The Paris Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Reading Myles is nothing if not a physical experience, the one-two promise of a heartbeat that goes, I’m alive. I’m alive.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eElectric Literature\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eChelsea Girls\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDeborah Levy, The New Statesman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“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.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eT: The New York Times Style Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ecco","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44888301437157,"sku":"NP9780062394668","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780062394668.jpg?v=1730228774","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/chelsea-girls-a-novel-isbn-9780062394668","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}