Twentieth-Century Boy - Notebooks of the Seventies

Zusatztext 83727524 Informationen zum Autor Duncan Hannah Klappentext Celebrated 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. Full 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, it is a rollicking account of an artist's coming of age. Leseprobe Chapter 1: Mystic Eyes Winter of 1970 I think back on the private boys’ school I went to. They tried to break me. Those bastards. They whacked me with oak boards and gave me noogies. My homosexual Latin teacher twisted my ear around because my conjugation lacked something. I had lead ashtrays pitched at my head. I was shoved into a gym locker and hammered upon. I came onto mescaline in French class. I wrote hundreds of sentences beginning with “I will not?.?.?.” I wheezed during soccer practice. It was crushing me. Now I’m free. Adrift in a huge public high school where very little is demanded of me. I just got done jamming with my band, the Hurricane Boys. We did “Boris the Spider,” “Run Run Run,” “Communication Breakdown,” “I’m So Glad,” “I’m a Man,” “Stormy Weather.” I felt invincible behind my set of silver-­sparkle Ludwigs. Cutting through dense layers of Gibson guitars, leading, following, patterns lock in, my head spins, and a rush swoops up from my toes to my crossed eyes. Sounds great, and it’s coming from us ! Driving back home past nighttime-­neon suburbia, Tom Thumb, the Little General, Nate’s Food Market, Snuffy’s Drive-­In, Smack’s Hamburgers, Quik Mart, Dairy Queen, Pee Wee’s Big Fish, the A&W, the 7-­Hi, Hart’s Cafe, listening to Clapton on the radio, the car full of crazy longhairs, a working unit, one feeding off of the other, observing, pretending, babbling, goofing. We’re on the way to somewhere, picking up, dropping off. I think of fifteen-­year-­old Honey Sullivan. Last December she got shipped back to her mother’s house in Dixie County, Missouri. She was only here for a few months after some trouble back home. Honey had been one of those precocious kids who would be the only girl in an all-­boy club and do a striptease for them in a treehouse. Never had a dad. She was hot to trot. She’d been shown the ropes by some pool shark/drug dealer ten years her senior for one entire summer. Our first kiss was in Loring Park. After smoking a joint and watching the ducks, we rolled around by the flower beds. All tongues and suction. We break for air, and she says in her southern accent, “I knew you’d kiss like that.” I thought to myself, “I never kissed like that in my life!” We made out till midnight. She said, “Next week I want to make love to you.” I remember her big eyes looking up at me in the school hallways as she grinned and said, “Hello, boy,” hungry for the nights of passion to come. She is two years younger than me but much more sexually advanced. I remember her back as she undid her white brassiere and then turned to me where I lay. An indelible sight I replay over and over in my head. Perfect breasts jutting out, downy soft and pink-­tipped. Fawn-­colored fluffy pubis. Arching up her limbs to me like a sensuous cat who wants to be petted and stroked?.?.?.??her creamy flat stomach?.?.?.??her hair smelled honey-­sweet. For real. Once in my parents’ house (they were in Europe), listening to the Beatles’ “I Want You,” and she was getting all worked up. “She’s so ...

Product details

• Authors: Hannah Duncan, Duncan Hannah
• Publisher: Vintage USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 30.04.2019
• EAN: 9781524711221
• ISBN: 978-1-5247-1122-1
• No. of pages: 496
• Dimensions: 132 mm x 203 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Knopf
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies