JUST KIDS by Patti Smith
In 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...
"Just Kids: Punk Icon Patti Smith Looks Back" - National Public Radio interview with Patti Smith
"A shockingly beautiful book...a classic, a romance about becoming an artist in the city, written in a spare, simple style of boyhood memoirs..." --New York Magazine
"...A heartbreakingly sweet recollection of vanished Bohemian life ...glorious, startlingly personal snapshots that augment Smith’s elegiac text. ...page after atmospheric page... Smith answers to no one. Just as she stands out as an artiste in a movement based on collectivism, her singular voice gleams among rock memoirs as a work of literature." --Boston Globe
"Tenderly evocative... A strong, true voice unencumbered by the polarizing mannerisms of her poetry. This Patti Smith is a newly mesmerizing figure, not quite the one her die-hard fans used to know. This book achieves its aura of the sacrosanct...if it sometimes sounds like a fairy tale, it also conveys a heartbreakingly clear idea of why Ms. Smith is entitled to tell one." --New York Times
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