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Twentieth-Century Boy: Notebooks of the Seventies

Publisher
Knopf Publishing Group
Author
Duncan Hannah
A celebrated New York City painter´s rollicking and vividly immediate account of his life amid the city´s glamorous demimondes in their most vital era as an aspiring artist, roaring boy, dandy, cultural omnivore, and far-from-obscure object of desire. Duncan Hannah arrived in New York City from Minneapolis in the early 1970s as an art student hungry for experience, game for almost anything, and with a prodigious taste for drugs, girls, alcohol, movies, rock and roll, books, parties, and everything else the city had to offer. He also happened to be outrageously, androgynously beautiful, attracting the attention of the city´s most prominent gay scenemeisters, who found his adamant heterosexuality a source of immense frustration. Taken directly from the notebooks Hannah kept throughout the seventies, Twentieth-Century Boy is a louche, sometimes lurid, and incredibly entertaining report from a now almost mythical time and place, full of outrageously bad behavior, naked ambition, gender-bending celebrities, fantastically good music and evaporating barriers of taste and decorum. At its center: a young man in the mix and on the make, determined to forge an identity for himself as an artist while being at risk from his own heedless appetites. A time capsule from a scary, seedy, but irresistible time and place.
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      SKU
      9781524733391
      Published At
      13.03.2018
      Dimensions
      213x155x38 mm
      Pages
      496
      EAN
      9781524733391
      Format
      Created At (custom)
      16.04.2019
      ISBN
      9781524733391

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