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What is Chelsea Girls about?

A groundbreaking and candid novel-in-real-time, considered a cult classic, from one of America's most celebrated poets In this breathtakingly inventive autobiographical novel, Eileen Myles transforms her life into a work of art. Told in her audacious and singular voice made vivid and immediate in her lyrical language, Chelsea Girls cobbles together memories of Myles's 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. Suffused with alcohol, drugs, and sex; evocative in its depictions of the hardscrabble realities of a young artist's life; with raw, flickering stories of awkward love, humor, and discovery, Chelsea Girls is a funny, cool, and intimate account of a writer's education, and a modern tale of how one young female writer managed to shrug off the chains of the rigid cultural identity meant to define her. Dedication 3 Bath, Maine 6 The Kid 12 Merry Christmas, Dr. Beagle 14 Light Warrior 17 Bread and Water 18 My Scar 25 Everybody Would Go Play Cards at Eddie and Nonie’s 26 The Goodbye Tapes 28 Robin 31 Madras 37 1969 48 February 13, 1982 56 Violence Towards

Author

Eileen Myles

Publisher

HarperCollins

Language

EN

Rating

3.97 / 5 (189 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14