{"product_id":"i-dreamed-i-was-a-very-clean-tramp","title":"I Dreamed I Was a Very Clean Tramp","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"In his poetic memoir, Hell takes us on a tour of a lost world and stakes out his place in cultural history.\"--\u003cem\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"A rueful, battle-scarred, darkly witty observer of his own life and times.\"--New York Times \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe sharp, lyrical, and no-holds- barred autobiography of the iconoclastic writer and musician Richard Hell, charting the childhood, coming of age, and misadventures of an artist in an indelible era of rock and roll.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom an early age, Richard Hell dreamed of running away. He arrived penniless in New York City at seventeen; ten years later he was a pivotal voice of the age of punk, cofounding such seminal bands as Television, The Heartbreakers, and Richard Hell and the Voidoids--whose song \"Blank Generation\" remains the defining anthem of the era, an era that would forever alter popular culture in all its forms.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHow this legendary downtown artist went from a bucolic childhood in the idyllic Kentucky foothills to igniting a movement that would take over New York and London's restless youth culture--cementing CBGB as the ground zero of punk and spawning the careers of not only Hell himself, but a cohort of friends such as Tom Verlaine, Patti Smith, the Ramones, and Debby Harry--is a mesmerizing chronicle of self-invention, and of Hell's yearning for redemption through poetry, music, and art. An acutely rendered, unforgettable coming-of-age story, \u003cem\u003eI Dreamed I Was a Very Clean Tramp\u003c\/em\u003e evokes with feeling, lyricism, and piercing intelligence both the world that shaped him and the world he shaped.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ecco Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48836088430797,"sku":"9780062190840","price":20.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0557\/1529\/9533\/files\/imageloader_b102d4cf-5b2c-44af-aef7-3c8048850e16.jpg?v=1790992724","url":"https:\/\/booksatmidnight.com\/products\/i-dreamed-i-was-a-very-clean-tramp","provider":"Books At Midnight","version":"1.0","type":"link"}