Chelsea Girls
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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
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Glad I finally read it. It's been on my tbr list for years. Did not know what to expect. I know of Myles' poetry, but this is autobiographical prose. Some essays I really loved, and would remember forever, cause they really touched my heart, but others felt like a friend telling me what they did last night. Which could be fun, but I really couldn't follow who's who in the story.
I do like that the book is really genuine, and I feel like I know who Eileen Myles is, as a person, more than the writer.
