{"product_id":"brat-an-80s-story","title":"Brat: An '80s Story","description":"\u003cb\u003eFans of Patti Smith's \u003ci\u003eJust Kids\u003c\/i\u003e and Rob Lowe's \u003ci\u003eStories\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eI Only Tell My Friends\u003c\/i\u003e will love this beautifully written, entertaining, and emotionally honest memoir by an actor, director, and author who found his start as an 80s Brat pack member, now in paperback.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Most people know Andrew McCarthy from his movie roles in \u003ci\u003ePretty in Pink, St. Elmo's Fire, Weekend at Bernie's, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eLess than Zero\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 \u003ci\u003eBrat: An '80s Story\u003c\/i\u003e, 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, from scoring loose joints in Washington Square Park to 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, \u003ci\u003eBrat \u003c\/i\u003eis a surprising and intimate story of an outsider caught up in a most unwitting success.\r","brand":"Andrew McCarthy","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44443498381548,"sku":"9781538754290","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44443498414316,"sku":"9781538754276","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0684\/1791\/3068\/files\/9781538754290.jpg?v=1718645188","url":"https:\/\/allstora.com\/products\/brat-an-80s-story","provider":"Allstora","version":"1.0","type":"link"}