Ebook {Epub PDF} Just Kids by Patti Smith

Just Kids, a memoir written by American musician Patti Smith and winner of the National Book Award for Nonfiction, documents Smith's relationship with the photographer Robert Mapplethorpe. The memoir begins in Smith and Mapplethorpe's childhood, and moves through their young adulthood in the late s and s in New York City. 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/5. Patti’s Smith’s exquisite prose is generously illustrated in this full-color edition of her classic coming-of-age memoir, Just Kids. New York locations vividly come to life where, as young artists, Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe met and fell in love: a first apartment in Brooklyn, Times Square with John and Yoko’s iconic billboard, Max’s Kansas City, or the gritty fire escape of the Hotel Chelsea/5().

Just Kids begins as a love story and ends as an elegy. It serves as a salute to New York City during the late sixties and seventies and to its rich and poor, its hustlers and hellions. A true fable, it is a portrait of two young artists' ascent, a prelude to fame. Product Details. ISBN: Share - Just Kids by Patti Smith (, Trade Paperback) Just Kids by Patti Smith (, Trade Paperback) out of 5 stars 17 product ratings. average based on 17 product ratings. 5. 15 users rated this 5 out of 5 stars 4. 2 users rated this 4 out of 5 stars 2. 3. Patti Smith calls the book, Just Kids, a memoir rather than an autobiography. Her book is almost poetic in nature and written in a beautiful and engaging way. From the first pages, the reader is drawn to her words and imagery. In describing one of her first memories, that of a swan on a pond, she says, "the river emptied into a wide lagoon.

Patti Smith’s memoir of her youth with Robert Mapplethorpe testifies to a rare and ferocious innocence ’Just Kids’ is a book utterly lacking in irony or sophisticated cynicism. www.doorway.ru One of the best books ever written on becoming an artist Jesus may have died for somebody’s sins, but Patti Smith lives and writes and sings for all of us. Just Kids is a memoir by Patti Smith, published on Janu, documenting her relationship with artist Robert Mapplethorpe. "I didn't write it to be cathartic," she noted. "I wrote it because Robert asked me to Our relationship was such that I knew what he would want and the quality of what he deserved. So that was my agenda for writing that book. I wrote it to fulfil my vow to him, which was on his deathbed. In finishing, I did feel that I'd fulfilled my promise.". Smith's memoir of their friendship, Just Kids, is tender and artful, open-eyed but surprisingly decorous, with the oracular style familiar from her anthems like "Because the Night," "Gloria," and "Dancing Barefoot" balanced by her powers of observation and memory for everyday details like the price of automat sandwiches and the shabby, welcoming fellow bohemians of the Chelsea Hotel, among whose ranks these baby Rimbauds found their way.