{"product_id":"cleans-up-nicely-paperback","title":"Cleans Up Nicely - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLinda Dahl Vogl\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen twenty-something artist Erica Mason moves from laid-back Mexico to Manhattan in the mid-1970s, she finds a hard-edged, decadent, and evolving art scene. Her life there leads her to a self-destructive string of affairs with men, alcohol, and drugs, but also, ultimately, to the self-respect that has long eluded her.;\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen twenty-something artist Erica Mason moves from laid-back Mexico to Manhattan in the mid-1970s, she finds a hard-edged, decadent, and radically evolving art scene. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Peppered with characters who could only come from the latter days of the \"turn-on-and-drop-out\" '60s in then-crumbling New York (a spaced-out drummer who's completely given up on using or making money, a radical feminist who glues animal furs to her paintings of vaginas, and icons in the making like Patti Smith), Erica's New York is fast-moving, funny, and heartrending just like the city itself. Ultimately, her rite of passage is not only a love affair with art, men, alcohol, drugs, and music in the swirl that was the downtown scene in a radically evolving era in New York, but also a resurrection from addiction and self-delusion. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e More than the study of a celebrated period of artistic expression, Cleans Up Nicely is the story of one gifted young woman's path from self-destruction to a hard-won self-knowledge that opens up a whole new world for her and helps her claim the self-respect that has long eluded her.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter graduating from the University of Wisconsin with an honors degree in Latin American Studies, Linda Dahl worked as a freelance journalist in Mexico, Ecuador, and Brazil, with a particular interest in the arts. Based in New York since the mid 1970's, her books reflect her interests in the arts and love of research. \u003ci\u003eStormy Weather: The Music and Lives of a Century of Jazzwomen\u003c\/i\u003e (Pantheon, 1984) was called \"a brilliant work of oral history\" by \u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003ci\u003eMorning Glory: A Biography of Mary Lou Williams\u003c\/i\u003e (Pantheon, 2000), was a\u003ci\u003e New York Times \u003c\/i\u003eNotable Book of the Year. \u003ci\u003eHaunted Heart: A Biography of Susannah McCorkle\u003c\/i\u003e (University of Michigan Press, 2006), wrote Leon Wieseltier in \u003ci\u003eThe New Republic\u003c\/i\u003e \"is vivacious, tender, saturnine, industrious and deeply intelligent.\" Her novel, \u003ci\u003eGringa in a Strange Land\u003c\/i\u003e (Robert D. Reed Publishers), won the Writers in the Sky Award for Best Creative Writing of 2010.;\u003cbr\u003e;;;; Linda has just completed a new novel, \u003ci\u003eCleans Up Nicely\u003c\/i\u003e, to be published in\u003cbr\u003e2013 by She Writes Press.\u003cbr\u003e;\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 280\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 8.6 x 5.6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 25, 2013\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48422201721081,"sku":"9781938314384","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/Gic6tUGlOa9781938314384.webp?v=1779263550","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/cleans-up-nicely-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}