Just Kids Paperback - 2010
by Patti Smith
Summary
In 1967, a chance meeting between two young people led to a romance and a lifelong friendship that would carry each to international success never dreamed of. The backdrop is Brooklyn, Chelsea Hotel, Max's Kansas City, Scribner's Bookstore, Coney Island, Warhol's Factory and the whole city resplendent. Among their friends, literary lights, musicians and artists such as Harry Smith, Bobby Neuwirth, Allen Ginsberg, Sandy Daley, Sam Shepherd, William Burroughs, etc. It was a heightened time politically and culturally; the art and music worlds exploding and colliding. In the midst of all this two kids made a pact to always care for one another. Scrappy, romantic, committed to making art, they prodded and provided each other with faith and confidence during the hungry years - the days of cous-cous and lettuce soup.
Just Kids begins as a love story and ends as an elegy. Beautifully written, this is a profound portrait of two young artists, often hungry, sated only by art and experience. And an unforgettable portrait of New York, her rich and poor, hustlers and hellions, those who made it and those whose memory lingers near.
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Readers largely praised this memoir’s lyrical, elegiac prose and its tender, clear-eyed portrait of Patti Smith’s bond with Robert Mapplethorpe. Many found it an inspiring love letter to art and a vivid snapshot of late?1960s and 1970s New York—especially the Chelsea Hotel—while the closing chapters were frequently described as deeply moving. The author’s own audio narration drew special commendation. Detractors cited heavy name?dropping, list?like chronology, and occasionally fussy, archaic diction, with some wishing for more emotional and analytical depth about the relationship and its sexual complexities.
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- Title Just Kids
- Author Patti Smith
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Paperback
- Pages 320
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Bloomsbury Paperbacks
- Publication date 2010-12-13
- ISBN 9780747568766 / 0747568766
- Category Biography / Autobiography
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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