TY  - BOOK
AU  - McCarthy,Andrew
TI  - Brat: an '80s story 
SN  - 9781538754276
PY  - 2021///
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - Grand Central Publishing, Hachette Book Group
KW  - McCarthy, Andrew,
KW  - Actors
KW  - United States
KW  - Biography
KW  - Motion pictures
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Nineteen eighties
KW  - Autobiographies
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Biographies
N2  - "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 -- scoring loose joints in Washington Square Park and 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"--
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