About the Book: Chelsea Girls
In this breathtakingly inventive autobiographical novel, Eileen Myles transforms
her life into a work of art. Suffused with alcohol, drugs, and sex; evocative in
its depictions of the hardscrabble realities of a young queer artists life; with
raw, flickering stories of awkward love, laughter, and discovery, Chelsea Girls
is a funny, cool, and intimate account of how one young female writer managed to
shrug off the imposition of a rigid cultural identity. Told in her audacious and
singular voice made vivid and immediate in her lyrical language, Chelsea Girls
weaves together memories of Myless 1960s Catholic upbringing with an alcoholic
father, her volatile