The release date for the English version of 'Brat: An '80s Story' by
Andrew McCarthy is May 2021. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
As a founding member of Hollywood's Brat Pack and star of Pretty in Pink, St. Elmo's Fire, Weekend at Bernie's, and Less than Zero, most people are familiar with Andrew McCarthy. That legendary cast of lovable idiots and hotties, which included Rob Lowe, Demi Moore, Molly Ringwald, and Emilio Estevez, has come to symbolize a pop cultural era as well as a particular film genre.
In Brat: An '80s Story, his book, McCarthy concentrates on that one unique period of time. The end product is a fascinating examination of growing up in a turbulent world while juggling ambition, innocence, addiction, and masculinity. From snagging 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 transform his life, New York City of the 1980s is brought vividly to life in these pages.Brat is an unexpected and personal account of an outsider enmeshed in an unintentional success, full of intimate moments and personal admissions of innocence lost to the seductive days of Hollywood with John Hughes and a legendary cast of personalities.