Chelsea Girls
About this book
"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"--Page 4 of cover
Reader Profile
3.7/5 · 5 readers · 275 pages · ≈ 5 h 06 m · Moderate
How long does it take to read Chelsea Girls?
About ≈ 5 h 06 m — 275 pages, assuming roughly 250 words per page at 225 words per minute.
How many pages is Chelsea Girls?
275 pages in its most-read edition.
What genre is Chelsea Girls?
It sits on the Fiction shelves.
Who wrote Chelsea Girls?
Eileen Myles.