Darling Days

Author(s): iO Tillett Wright

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I was born, September 1985, in the vortex of the Lower East Side of New York: there were few rules of life and zero constraints on behaviour. If you were not eccentric, you were weird. iO - lower case I, upper case O, her real first name given to her by her father, one of those eccentrics - is now a photographer, writer, film maker, activist, and actor. She is famous for a TED talk: 50 Shades of Gay which has been watched by 1.7 million people. But before that she was a child in a teeming tenement building at the centre of the drug-addled, punk-edged, permanent riot that was her corner of the Lower East Side of New York City in the 80s and 90s. There she grew up - or rather scrabbled up - under the broken wing of a fiercely protective, yet wildly negligent mother. Her mother was a showgirl, actress, dancer, poet. A widow by police murder, she was also an addict. She was wildly protective of her daughter, doting and obsessive, yet lacked an understanding that a child needs food and sleep and safety. As a girl iO decided it was safer to live as a boy so from the age of six to fourteen that's what she did until she broke from her mother and escaped to Germany and then England and to become an amazingly talented, exciting, edgy artist and wonderful writer.

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Gender-defying iO Wright mixes such a high-octane cocktail of radiant ink, wild anecdotes, bad behavior, and gritty truths -topped off with an unexpected tonic of transcendence-it could stagger Charles Dickens, electrify Maxim Gorky, and cause Jane Austen to walk around in army boots -- Tom Robbins It's already a rare and wonderful thing to have a great story-but a unique and compelling voice to tell it with is even rarer. With Darling Days, iO Tillett Wright takes us right to where great storytelling lives. A terrific, terrific book, filled with great characters, set in a time and place, the pre-gentrified Lower East Side of Manhattan, that spins farther away from memory with every passing day -- Anthony Bourdain

iO - lower case I, upper case O, her real first name given to her by her father, one of those eccentrics - is now a photographer, writer, film maker, activist, and actor. She is famous for a TED talk: 50 Shades of Gay which has been watched by 1.7 million people.

General Fields

  • : 9780349005614
  • : Little, Brown Book Group
  • : Virago Press Ltd
  • : 0.446
  • : May 2016
  • : 236mm X 162mm X 28mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : September 2016
  • : books

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  • : iO Tillett Wright
  • : Paperback
  • : Paperback
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  • : 974.71043092
  • : 974.71043092
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  • : Integrated bw photos supplied and cleared for our use by the US publisher
  • : Integrated bw photos supplied and cleared for our use by the US publisher