{"product_id":"i-dreamed-i-was-a-very-clean-tramp-an-autobiography-9780062190840","title":"I Dreamed I Was a Very Clean Tramp: An Autobiography","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"In his poetic memoir, Hell takes us on a tour of a lost world and stakes out his place in cultural history.\"--\u003cem\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"A rueful, battle-scarred, darkly witty observer of his own life and times.\"--New York Times \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe sharp, lyrical, and no-holds- barred autobiography of the iconoclastic writer and musician Richard Hell, charting the childhood, coming of age, and misadventures of an artist in an indelible era of rock and roll.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom an early age, Richard Hell dreamed of running away. He arrived penniless in New York City at seventeen; ten years later he was a pivotal voice of the age of punk, cofounding such seminal bands as Television, The Heartbreakers, and Richard Hell and the Voidoids--whose song \"Blank Generation\" remains the defining anthem of the era, an era that would forever alter popular culture in all its forms.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHow this legendary downtown artist went from a bucolic childhood in the idyllic Kentucky foothills to igniting a movement that would take over New York and London's restless youth culture--cementing CBGB as the ground zero of punk and spawning the careers of not only Hell himself, but a cohort of friends such as Tom Verlaine, Patti Smith, the Ramones, and Debby Harry--is a mesmerizing chronicle of self-invention, and of Hell's yearning for redemption through poetry, music, and art. An acutely rendered, unforgettable coming-of-age story, \u003cem\u003eI Dreamed I Was a Very Clean Tramp\u003c\/em\u003e evokes with feeling, lyricism, and piercing intelligence both the world that shaped him and the world he shaped.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHell, Richard:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003eSince retiring from music in 1984, Richard Hell has focused primarily on writing. He is the author of the journals collection \u003cem\u003eArtifact\u003c\/em\u003e; the novels \u003cem\u003eGo Now\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eGodlike\u003c\/em\u003e; and the collection of essays, notebooks, and lyrics \u003cem\u003eHot and Cold\u003c\/em\u003e; as well as numerous other pamphlets and books. Hell has published essays, reportage, and fiction in such publications as \u003cem\u003eSpin\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eGQ\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eEsquire\u003c\/em\u003e, the \u003cem\u003eVillage Voice\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eVice\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eBookforum\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eArt in America\u003c\/em\u003e, the \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e, and the New \u003cem\u003eYork Times Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e. From 2004 to 2006 he was the film critic for \u003cem\u003eBlackBook\u003c\/em\u003e magazine. He lives in New York City.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ecco Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50606842937618,"sku":"9780062190840","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_0b5bc1b8-7728-4534-bcff-f3ad40edb998.jpg?v=1732300476","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/i-dreamed-i-was-a-very-clean-tramp-an-autobiography-9780062190840","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}