{"product_id":"9780062190857","title":"I Dreamed I Was a Very Clean Tramp: An Autobiography","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe autobiography of Richard Hell, icon of an indelible era of rock and roll and \"rueful, battle-scarred, darkly witty observer of his own life and times\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e   From 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.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e   \u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e   How 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 Debbie 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, \u003ci\u003eI Dreamed I Was a Very Clean Tramp\u003c\/i\u003e evokes with feeling, lyricism, and piercing intelligence both the world that shaped him and the world he shaped.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e   \u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e   \"In his poetic memoir, Hell takes us on a tour of a lost world and stakes out his place in cultural history.\" -\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e   \"There are very few books that make me want to start writing my own; this is one of them.\" -Kathleen Hanna\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e   \u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e   \"Not only an absorbing cultural history but also a clear-eyed story that superbly channels the attitude expressed in the first blurt to his best-known song 'Blank Generation': 'I was saying let me out of here before I was even born.'\" -\u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"HarperCollins","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46556481290481,"sku":"9780062190857","price":23.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0674\/5433\/7265\/files\/9780062190857_p0.jpg?v=1766599847","url":"https:\/\/shop.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780062190857","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble","version":"1.0","type":"link"}