****A rollicking account of a celebrated artist's coming of age, f**ull
of outrageously bad behavior, naked ambition, fantastically good music,
and evaporating barriers of taste and decorum, and featuring cameos from
David Bowie, Andy Warhol, Patti Smith, and many more.
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"A phantasmagoria of alcohol, sex, art, conversation, glam rock, and New
Wave cinema. Hannah's writing combines self-aware humor with an
intoxicating punk energy." --The New Yorker
Painter 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. Taken directly from the notebooks Hannah kept throughout the
decade, Twentieth-Century Boy is a fascinating, sometimes lurid, and
incredibly entertaining report from a now almost mythical time and
place.