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| Original Title: | Just Kids |
| ISBN: | 006621131X (ISBN13: 9780066211312) |
| Edition Language: | English URL http://www.harpercollins.com/pattismith |
| Characters: | Patti Smith, Robert Mapplethorpe |
| Setting: | New York State(United States) New York City, New York(United States) |
| Literary Awards: | National Book Award for Nonfiction (2010), Stonewall Book Award Nominee for Nonfiction (2011), Lambda Literary Award Nominee for Bisexual Nonfiction (2011), National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee for Autobiography (2010), NAIBA Book of the Year for Nonfiction (2010) Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Memoir and Autobiography (2010) |
Patti Smith
Hardcover | Pages: 304 pages Rating: 4.15 | 165394 Users | 10423 Reviews
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In Just Kids, Patti Smith's first book of prose, the legendary American artist offers a never-before-seen glimpse of her remarkable relationship with photographer Robert Mapplethorpe in the epochal days of New York City and the Chelsea Hotel in the late sixties and seventies. An honest and moving story of youth and friendship, Smith brings the same unique, lyrical quality to Just Kids as she has to the rest of her formidable body of work--from her influential 1975 album Horses to her visual art and poetry.
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| Title | : | Just Kids |
| Author | : | Patti Smith |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 304 pages |
| Published | : | January 19th 2010 by Ecco |
| Categories | : | Nonfiction. Autobiography. Memoir. Music. Biography. Art. Biography Memoir |
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Ratings: 4.15 From 165394 Users | 10423 ReviewsWrite-Up Regarding Books Just Kids
its dark no im wrong its dawn i have my shades onSleepless 66Patti Smith writes to us out of the great and endless narcotic American night in a language inherited from the Beats and refined across a lifetime of lines scribbled on journals and diner napkins and hotel matchbooks, carving out her version of the truth. Despite all her awed talk of Mallarmé and Baudelaire, she is much more in sync with her compatriots like Paul Bowles and Hunter S. Thompson, and when she walks through a New YorkI'm not sure how to do this book proper justice in a review. Just Kids is a book that enthralled me, surprised me, and ultimately, a book that I have fallen in love with. Not only is it one of the best books I've read this year, it is one of the best books I have ever read.Knowing very little about Patti Smith or Robert Mapplethorpe going into reading this, I figured I would enjoy it but not quite appreciate it as much as someone who is a big fan of either. And while that might be true, I still
I never thought much about Patti Smith. The images I saw of her never attracted me, and what I knew of her Rimbaud fixation turned me off. I always had a problem with the Beat and Punk appropriation of Rimbaud as more a figure of rebellion than a sophisticated poet. For me poetry is a phenomenon of the page, not an outfit you wear down the street. I also never got into Punk Rock. Going to college in the fall of 1983 I had probably only heard of The Sex Pistols, though I had never listened to
I loved this book. I did not want it to end. To be honest, I did not know much about Patti Smith other than her music. When the book initially came out, I heard so many wonderful things about it. I thought I should give it a shot. But frankly, I was a bit tired of the 'musician' bio books as some were just so dreadful. I was so wrong to think that and hold off on this book.I decided to go with the audio. I was immediately enthralled with it. The audio is narrated by Smith and she does an
I'll say this for Patti Smith: Homegirl certainly knows how to write lifestyle porn. Somewhere between the Chelsea Hotel and the insertion of a millionaire benefactor I closed her love letter to Robert Mapplethorpe, "Just Kids," bonked myself in the head and said "Knock it off." I needed to stop being dazzled and wooed and to start seeing through clear eyes or I'd wake up in a bus stop in Detroit clutching a one-way ticket to 1971.People do that. Chuck it all, grab a blanket, commit 100 percent
"What should we aspire to as we go on our road? When I was in my early 20s, I was lucky to have William Burroughs as a friend and mentor. When I was with him and I asked him this question: what should I aspire to? and he thought, and he said: my dear, a gold American Express would be good. but after that he said very thoughtfully, build your name. and I said, William, my name is Smith. and he said, well, youll have to build a little harder. but what William meant when he told me to build my
This book is remarkably easy to parody. Here, I'll try:"I was crossing Tompkins Square Park when I ran into a young man wearing a gabardine vest. He smiled at me and called me "Sister." It was a young George Carlin. Robert hated him because he frequently had flakes of rye bread in his beard, but I loved how he could make me laugh with his impressions of Mick Jagger. On this morning, though, we wept together at the news that Paul McCartney would have to sell his house in Cannes. It was a sort of
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