# Brat: An '80s Story - Hardcover

by **Andrew McCarthy** (Author)

**Fans of Patti Smith's _Just Kids_ and Rob Lowe's _Stories I Only Tell My Friends_ 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.**  
Most people know Andrew McCarthy from his movie roles in _Pretty in Pink, St. Elmo's Fire, Weekend at Bernie's,_ and _Less than Zero_, 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 _Brat: An '80s Story_, 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, _Brat_ is a surprising and intimate story of an outsider caught up in a most unwitting success.

### Author Biography

Since starring in the movies he recounts throughout _Brat_, **Andrew McCarthy** has become a director, an award-winning travel writer, and a bestselling author. He has directed more than eighty hours of television, including _Orange in the New Black, The Blacklist, Gossip Girl,_ and many others. For a dozen years he served as editor at large at _National Geographic Traveler,_ and his award-winning travel writing has appeared in _The New York Times, The Atlantic, TIME_, and elsewhere. He is the author a travel memoir, _The Longest Way Home_, and a young-adult novel, _Just Fly Away_\--both _New York Times_ bestsellers.

**Number of Pages:** 240

**Dimensions:** 1.2 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN

**Illustrated:** Yes

**Publication Date:** May 11, 2021

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