Brat by Andrew Mccarthy

Brat by Andrew Mccarthy

Fans of Patti Smith's>Just Kids and Rob Lowe's>Stories I Only Tell My Friends will love this beautifully written, entertaining, and emotionally honest memoir by an actor, director, and author who found his start as an 80s Brat pack member -- the inspiration for the Hulu documentary>Brats, written and directed by Andrew McCarthy.
Most people know Andrew McCarthy from his movie roles in>Pretty in Pink, St. Elmo's Fire, Weekend at Bernie's, and>Less than Zero, and as a charter member of Hollywood's Brat Pack. That iconic group of ingenues and heartthrobs included Rob Lowe, Molly Ringwald, Emilio Estevez, and Demi Moore, and has come to represent both a genre of film and an era of pop culture. In his memoir>Brat: An '80s Story, McCarthy focuses his gaze on that singular moment in time. The result is a revealing look at coming of age in a maelstrom, reckoning with conflicted ambition, innocence, addiction, and masculinity. New York City of the 1980s is brought to vivid life in these pages, from scoring loose joints in Washington Square Park to skipping school in favor of the dark revival houses of the Village where he fell in love with the movies that would change his life. Filled with personal revelations of innocence lost to heady days in Hollywood with John Hughes and an iconic cast of characters, Brat>is a surprising and intimate story of an outsider caught up in a most unwitting success.

Fans of Patti Smith's>Just Kids and Rob Lowe's>Stories I Only Tell My Friends will love this beautifully written, entertaining, and emotionally honest memoir by an actor, director, and author who found his start as an 80s Brat pack member -- the inspiration for the Hulu documentary>Brats, written and directed by Andrew McCarthy.
Most people know Andrew McCarthy from his movie roles in>Pretty in Pink, St. Elmo's Fire, Weekend at Bernie's, and>Less than Zero, and as a charter member of Hollywood's Brat Pack. That iconic group of ingenues and heartthrobs included Rob Lowe, Molly Ringwald, Emilio Estevez, and Demi Moore, and has come to represent both a genre of film and an era of pop culture. In his memoir>Brat: An '80s Story, McCarthy focuses his gaze on that singular moment in time. The result is a revealing look at coming of age in a maelstrom, reckoning with conflicted ambition, innocence, addiction, and masculinity. New York City of the 1980s is brought to vivid life in these pages, from scoring loose joints in Washington Square Park to skipping school in favor of the dark revival houses of the Village where he fell in love with the movies that would change his life. Filled with personal revelations of innocence lost to heady days in Hollywood with John Hughes and an iconic cast of characters, Brat>is a surprising and intimate story of an outsider caught up in a most unwitting success.

McCarthy, Andrew: - Since starring in movies like Pretty in Pink, St Elmo's Fire, and Less Than Zero, Andrew McCarthy has become a director, an award-winning travel writer, and a bestselling author. He has directed more than eighty hours of television, including Orange Is the New Black, The Blacklist, Gossip Girl, and many others. For a dozen years he served as editor at large at National Geographic Traveler and his award-winning travel writing has appeared in The New York Times, the Atlantic and TIME. He is the author of The Longest Way Home, Just Fly Away, and most recently a memoir, Brat, all New York Times bestsellers.

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ISBN 13	9781538754290
ISBN 10	1538754290
Title	Brat
Author	Andrew Mccarthy
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Little, Brown & Company
Year published	2022-05-10
Number of pages	240
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