{"product_id":"chelsea-girls-9780062394668","title":"Chelsea Girls","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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMyles, Eileen:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003eEileen Myles has published twenty books of poetry, art journalism, and fiction and libretti. She's a Guggenheim Fellow, has received the Shelley Prize from the Poetry Society of America and a Lambda Award for lesbian fiction, and was named to the Whiting\/Slate Second Novel List. She also received an arts writers grant from Creative Capital\/ the Warhol Foundation and a Foundation for Contemporary Arts grant. She lives in Marfa, Texas, and New York.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ecco Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50592762298642,"sku":"9780062394668","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_d11f4f9b-f063-4c79-81d7-a5f583e71405.jpg?v=1732107581","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/chelsea-girls-9780062394668","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}