Twentieth-Century Boy Notebooks of the Seventies

A renowned painter's rollicking account of coming of age--and rubbing shoulders with David Bowie, Andy Warhol, Patti Smith, and more--in 1970s New York City. 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 seventies, 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, gender-bending celebrities, fantastically good music, and evaporating barriers of taste and decorum.