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Short Synopsis
Chelsea Girls is the groundbreaking and candid coming-of-age novel in real time from one of America's most celebrated poets, Eileen Myles, that is considered a cult classic.

Full Synopsis
In 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, 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; and poignant with stories of love, humor, and discovery, Chelsea Girls 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.

Chelsea Girls

A Novel

Author Eileen Myles

Narrated by Eileen Myles

Publication date May 24, 2016

Running time 6 hrs 18 min

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