{"product_id":"cleans-up-nicely-a-novel-9781938314384","title":"Cleans Up Nicely: A Novel","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen twenty-something artist Erica Mason moves from laid-back Mexico to Manhattan in the mid-1970s, she finds a hard-edged, decadent, and evolving art scene. Her life there leads her to a self-destructive string of affairs with men, alcohol, and drugs, but also, ultimately, to the self-respect that has long eluded her. ;\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Erica Mason’s rite of passage is not only a love affair with art, men, alcohol, drugs, and jazz in the swirl that was the downtown scene in a radically evolving era in New York, but also a resurrection from addiction and self-delusion. At once fast-moving, funny, and heartrending, this is a deftly handled study of one gifted young woman’s path from self-destruction to self-knowledge, self-respect, and well-being.”  —Randolph Hogan, former \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e editor\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  “\u003ci\u003eCleans Up Nicely\u003c\/i\u003e is a pitch-perfect, picaresque tale of love lost and found, talent squandered and reclaimed, and friendship forgotten and redeemed in gritty 1970s New York. It all spins around Erica, a burgeoning artist with a peripatetic past and a talent for courting trouble. In evocative prose, Dahl gives us an insider’s look at New York’s demimonde, a motley assortment of bartenders, bosses, art dealers, academics, musicians, radical feminists, writers, working girls, pimps, pushers, and hangers-on.”  —Joan Duncan Oliver, Editor at Large, \u003ci\u003eTricycle: The Buddhist Review\u003c\/i\u003e and author of \u003ci\u003eThe Meaning of Nice\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"She Writes Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53192122958167,"sku":"9781938314384","price":12.34,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/cleans-up-nicely-a-novel-9781938314384","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}