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M Train Hardback - 2015

by Patti Smith

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The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee presents reflections on her inner life from the unique perspectives of the cafés and cultural haunts she has visited and worked in around the world.

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From the National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids an unforgettable odyssey of a legendary artist, told through the prism of the cafs and haunts she has worked in around the world. It is a book Patti Smith has described as "a roadmap to my life."

M Train begins in the tiny Greenwich Village caf where Smith goes every morning for black coffee, ruminates on the world as it is and the world as it was, and writes in her notebook. Through prose that shifts fluidly between dreams and reality, past and present, and across a landscape of creative aspirations and inspirations, we travel to Frida Kahlo's Casa Azul in Mexico; to a meeting of an Arctic explorer's society in Berlin; to a ramshackle seaside bungalow in New York's Far Rockaway that Smith acquires just before Hurricane Sandy hits; and to the graves of Genet, Plath, Rimbaud, and Mishima.

Woven throughout are reflections on the writer's craft and on artistic creation. Here, too, are singular memories of Smith's life in Michigan and the irremediable loss of her husband, Fred Sonic Smith.

Braiding despair with hope and consolation, illustrated with her signature Polaroids, M Train is a meditation on travel, detective shows, literature, and coffee. It is a powerful, deeply moving book by one of the most remarkable multiplatform artists at work today.

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  • Title M Train
  • Author Patti Smith
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition First edition
  • Pages 272
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Knopf Publishing Group, New York, NY
  • Publication date 2015
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Illustrated
  • ISBN 9781101875100 / 1101875100
  • Weight 0.93 lbs (0.42 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.25 x 5.69 x 0.88 in (20.96 x 14.45 x 2.24 cm)
  • Themes
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
  • Category Biography / Autobiography
  • Library of Congress subjects Rock musicians - United States, Women rock musicians - United States
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2015012904
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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  • Booklist, 09/01/2015, Page 25
  • Booklist Editors Choice/Adult, 01/01/2016, Page 6
  • Entertainment Weekly, 08/14/2015, Page 66
  • Kirkus Reviews, 08/01/2015, Page 0
  • Library Journal, 09/01/2015, Page 113
  • Library Journal Prepub Alert, 05/01/2015, Page 52
  • New York Review of Books, 10/22/2015, Page 4
  • New York Times Book Review, 12/06/2015, Page 29
  • Publishers Weekly, 08/10/2015, Page 0
  • Shelf Awareness, 10/06/2015, Page 0

About the author

PATTI SMITH is a writer, performer, and visual artist. She gained recognition in the 1970s for her revolutionary merging of poetry and rock. She has released twelve albums, including Horses, which has been hailed as one of the top one hundred albums of all time by Rolling Stone.

Smith had her first exhibit of drawings at the Gotham Book Mart in 1973 and has been represented by the Robert Miller Gallery since 1978. Her books include Just Kids, winner of the National Book Award in 2010, Wītt, Babel, Woolgathering, The Coral Sea, and Auguries of Innocence.

In 2005, the French Ministry of Culture awarded Smith the title of Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres, the highest honor given to an artist by the French Republic. She was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2007.

Smith married the musician Fred Sonic Smith in Detroit in 1980. They had a son, Jackson, and a daughter, Jesse. Smith resides in New York City.

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