{"product_id":"chelsea-girlsbooks","title":"Chelsea Girls","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\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\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn this breathtakingly inventive autobiographical novel, Eileen Myles transforms life into a work of art. Told in her audacious voice, made vivid and immediate in her lyrical language, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eChelsea Girls\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e cobbles together memories of Myles’ 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\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\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, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eChelsea Girls\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e is a funny, cool, and intimate account of a writer’s education, and a modern chronicle of how a young female writer shrugged off the chains of a rigid cultural identity meant to define her.\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"Myles, Eileen","offers":[{"title":"Paperback (Adult Fiction)","offer_id":44068605722848,"sku":"","price":8.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0330\/3125\/8248\/files\/32705030.jpg?v=1687975349","url":"https:\/\/agricola-street-books.myshopify.com\/products\/chelsea-girlsbooks","provider":"Agricola Street Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}