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Fans of Patti Smith’s Just Kids and Rob Lowe’s StoriesI 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, now in paperback. Brat: An 80’s Story PDF
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.

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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.

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• Publisher ‏ : ‎ Grand Central Publishing (May 10, 2022)
  Language ‏ : ‎ English
  Paperback ‏ : ‎ 240 pages
  International Standard Book Number-10 ‏ : ‎ 1538754290
  International Standard Book Number-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1538754290
  Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 6.4 ounces
  Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.45 x 0.95 x 8.25 inches
  Best Sellers Rank: #21,782 in Books

Reviews From Customers

teatime7
Not what you Thhink.
May 16, 2021

I was really excited about the book. As a kid who had most of his formative years in the 80’s, the Brat Pack movies played a huge part in my adolescence. McCarthy has been relatively tight-lipped over the years about those times so I thought that this would be a great look back tell-all. I was very interested to see that he is a good writer. He possesses the sense of narrative that a good storyteller should. I assume from all of his time in film and TV. As engaging as the writing is, it seemed to dwell much less on anecdotes from the time and behind-the-scenes details no one has heard yet, and more like a cathartic explanation of this method, and his family and substance issues. His recollections of the films are minimal and lack detail. He seemed to only know the other stars and filmmakers of those movies in passing and didn’t much associate with them at the time. Overall I was a bit let down, but it was nice getting a bit of insight into the time. It was like seeing an old high school friend you haven’t seen in 30 years just to be regaled with tales of the humdrum of their daily lives and no real insight into who they are and what has happened in all that time.
9

Kimberly D. Loisel
Ho hum
May 12, 2021

The whole book is summed up in any magazine article. I was disappointed that he didn’t go into detail about filming and how iconic his 80s movies were. It would’ve been nice to read about his career in the last 30 years.
6

PJ
Semi-Yawn
May 18, 2021

With the exception of ‘The Breakfast Club’, I was not a huge fan of the Brat Packers’ movies. But I’ve always been interested in reading memoirs of any kind, just because I like to read how people grew up, what shaped them into who they are, and-in the case of celebrity memoirs-details about the behind-the-scenes in certain movies. While Andrew McCarthy seems like a nice-enough fellow, he skimped on just about everything: his growing up years, any meaningful stories of his relationship with his parents, details of behind-the-scenes on his movies, his relationships, and his career as a director today. Maybe he was trying not to offend anyone or maybe he is just skating through life with not much emotional attachment to anything. Either way, it wasn’t near the interesting read I thought it would be.
However, when he did keep coming back to a theme (i.e. his drinking or certain old Hollywood actors he admired), it was interesting and drew me in. I just wish he had given the book as a whole the colorful, informative, richly detailed narrative that most of us who enjoy reading memoirs crave.
5

Christen D. Jacobsen
Absolutely LOVED this book!!!!!
May 20, 2021

So worth the wait. I had pre-ordered this book months ago and was so happy to receive it recently I think I read it in two days, I was hooked. I love learning so much about people and the story behind their career. Though I thought I “knew” Andrew McCarthy from being a huge fan of his since I was a teen, I never knew he was from New York and a native New Yorker. There are so many actors in Hollywood who grew up in California and had family members in the industry and it was so interesting to learn that Andrew was just a normal kid from New Jersey. I loved following the story behind his career and how he got to where he is today. I also loved the fact that he continues to live on the East Coast and calls New York City his home. I grew up on Long Island, but have lived in Los Angeles County for the last 13 years. Reading his book and hearing his story made me miss so many things about New York City, where I worked for 10 years in the 90’s. I loved him in Lipstick Jungle and was so very sad when it was cancelled, albeit way too soon. So glad to hear about all his directing in the last several years which I did not know was something he had pursued for a very long time. This book was tastefully done, very truthful, without being a “tell-all,” which so many actors tend to write. It was about his journey and an interesting one it was. Best of luck to you always Andrew! Thanks for the great reading!!!!
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C. Yamagata
Great Memoir
May 11, 2021
As a young adult, I admired Andrew McCarthy ever since his first movie, Class. I might have even had a crush on him at that time in the the 80’s. How can you not adore his boyish charm and good looks? So when I saw that McCarthy had a memoir, I just had to get my greedy little hands on an early copy. I was not disappointed.

McCarthy’s memoir is a glimpse into his early life and film career. As a late bloomer, he became painfully aware of his shortcomings. But, he managed to adapt and become successful at his craft. Being that the primary focus of this memoir is McCarthy’s entrance into the filmmaking world, it was interesting to read how it all happened. As the saying goes, right place, right time. However, I would have wanted to read more about McCarthy’s entry into directing and his directorial debut.

I have yet to read McCarthy’s other written works, but if this memoir is any indication of his writing ability, I’m sure I’ll be just as impressed.

So, if you enjoy memoirs and have ever been a fan of McCarthy for his films of any of his other works, you won’t be disappointed. Five glowing stars.

I received a digital ARC from Grand Central Publishing through NetGalley. The review herein is completely my own and contains my honest thoughts and opinions.
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Diane Senffner
This Book Did Not Disappoint!
May 13, 2021

In the wooly world of our fragile youth, we are learning, making mistakes, combatting insecurities inwardly or outwardly, testing waters and sometimes living on the edge. Later in life we have a choice: Erase it or embrace it. Andrew McCarthy has chosen to embrace his youth in his book. McCarthy is a talented writer who makes the reader feel every one of his entertaining, painful and sometime frightening stories as though they are in the room watching it happen. Hollywood is not for the sensitive or faint of heart yet that ‘blinding light’ kept him moving toward his goal while it also became a self-destructive force in his life. I am the same age as McCarthy and I must admit the ‘Brat Pack’ moniker seemed appropriate for that particular group of people. But something always set him apart, at least for me. I, too, am an actor and relived every one of my failed auditions through his words. I felt his glee and I remember well the movie biz in the ’80s. It’s nice to know that the guy I thought was different actually was and is refreshingly human.

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Suzanne G
Not a gossipy autobiography
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 27, 2022

If you’re looking for a gossipy insight into the famed ‘Brat Pack’ in the 80’s then you will be disappointed by this autobiography because it doesn’t.
What it does do is tell the story of an often insecure young man who seemed to feel totally out of place amongst the rising stars of the 80’s teen dramas. I think all he wanted to do was act but felt unworthy or star struck a lot. He portrays that he felt he just stumbled into success and situations (especially celebrity parties) by shear accident.
Very self-deprecating throughout the book Andrew McCarthy comes across as a lost soul in the 80’s searching for something that has taken him a long time to find. Comfort in himself and his abilities.

Although there are snippets into the making of some of his most well known films, he doesn’t speak negatively about his co-stars. If anything he concludes that he distanced himself from them though his own actions.

I thoroughly enjoyed this memoir and may now check out some of his travel writing but before that I’m off to watch Pretty in Pink again and look out for the bad wig at the end.

A searingly honest book on acting fame in the 1980’s
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 10, 2021

An insightful book charting the acting career of one of the 1980’s heartthrob actors. An inside look at how fame isn’t always what it’s cracked up to be and a must read for any aspiring actors. Andrew McCarthy writes with searing honesty about the highs and lows of fame and one of those who had the moniker of ‘brat pack’ in the 1980’s. A great read for anyone of us who was around in those days.

Jon
Great book and insight into the 1980s brat-pack era
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 22, 2021

Andrew McCarthy opens a very honest insight into the brat pack of the 1980s movies. Very interesting account of an outsider who gets his limelight and hits the big time amongst the the likes of legends such as ‘Rob Lowe and Demi Moore to mention but a few.

Maureen Doyle
Tve wow factor
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 11, 2021

Dislike the design of the book
Expected more colour looks cheap

Joanie
Brilliant
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 3, 2021

Absolutely brilliant inspirational book have watched all the films and was great to read from the actor himself best read in a long time

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