Chelsea Girls

<p>Available 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.</p><p>In 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 <em>Chelsea Girls</em> 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.</p><p>Suffused 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 <em>Chelsea Girls</em> 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. </p>