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Darling Days
Io Tillett Wright
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Description for Darling Days
Paperback. A New York memoir of an unfettered childhood in the Lower East Side of the 1980s Num Pages: 464 pages, Integrated b&w photos supplied and cleared for our use by the US publisher. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; 3JJPN; 3JJPR; BM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 126. .
I WAS BORN, SEPTEMBER 1985, IN THE VORTEX OF THE LOWER EAST SIDE OF NEW YORK: THERE WERE FEW RULES OF LIFE AND ZERO CONTRAINTS ON BEHAVIOUR. IF YOU WERE NOT ECCENTRIC, YOU WERE WEIRD. It was a tenement building at the centre of the drug-addled, punk-edged, permanent riot that was iO's corner of the Lower East Side of New York City in the '80s and 90's. There iO grew up - or rather scrabbled up - under the broken wing of a fiercely protective, yet wildly negligent mother. Rhonna was a showgirl, actress, ... Read more
I WAS BORN, SEPTEMBER 1985, IN THE VORTEX OF THE LOWER EAST SIDE OF NEW YORK: THERE WERE FEW RULES OF LIFE AND ZERO CONTRAINTS ON BEHAVIOUR. IF YOU WERE NOT ECCENTRIC, YOU WERE WEIRD. It was a tenement building at the centre of the drug-addled, punk-edged, permanent riot that was iO's corner of the Lower East Side of New York City in the '80s and 90's. There iO grew up - or rather scrabbled up - under the broken wing of a fiercely protective, yet wildly negligent mother. Rhonna was a showgirl, actress, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Virago
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
464
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780349005638
SKU
V9780349005638
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-10
About Io Tillett Wright
iO Tillett Wright is a photographer, writer, film maker, activist and actor. iO's hugely popular TED talk, 50 Shades of Gay, has been watched by more than two million people.
Reviews for Darling Days
I missed an unprecedented two subway stops because I was so engrossed in iO Tillett Wright's East Village memoir Darling Days. A riveting story about growing up trans with a mentally ill mother, it will make you fall for the precocious, streetwise iO
Olivia Laing
Guardian
An immensely evocative portrait of growing up in a tenement building ... Read more
Olivia Laing
Guardian
An immensely evocative portrait of growing up in a tenement building ... Read more