
In this breathtakingly inventive autobiographical novel Eileen Myles transforms her life into a work of art Suffused with alcohol drugs & sex; evocative in its depictions of the hardscrabble realities of a young queer artist's life; with raw flickering stories of awkward love laughter & discovery Chelsea Girls is a funny cool & intimate account of how one young female writer managed to shrug off the imposition of a rigid cultural identity Told in her audacious & singular voice made vivid & immediate in her lyrical language Chelsea Girls weaves together memories of Myles's 1960s Catholic upbringing with an alcoholic father her volatile adolescence her unabashed lesbianity & her riotous pursuit of survival as a poet in 1970s & 80s New York