Hardy Boy
Artist Duncan Hannah's boisterous memoir of 1970s New York.
Howard Hampton

Twentieth-Century Boy:
Notebooks of the Seventies
by Duncan Hannah
Knopf
$28.95 List Price
Landing in the cratered, tawdry New York City of the 1970s, Duncan Hannah was a distracted art student who became a fitfully aspiring painter-illustrator. Before maturing into the stylish throwback artist he is today—the Evelyn Waugh of painting, beautifully reimagining Bridesheads past and bygone movie stars—he cut a resplendently androgynous figure on the CBGB scene, as both a born bon vivant and a straight sex object
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