Just Kids

WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD It was the summer Coltrane died, the summer of love and...
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Author: Patti Smith
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Just Kids by Smith, Patti

Just Kids

$73.95

Just Kids

$73.95
Author: Patti Smith
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD

It was the summer Coltrane died, the summer of love and riots, and the summer when a chance encounter in Brooklyn led two young people on a path of art, devotion, and initiation.

Patti Smith would evolve as a poet and performer, and Robert Mapplethorpe would direct his highly provocative style toward photography. Bound in innocence and enthusiasm, they traversed the city from Coney Island to Forty-Second Street, and eventually to the celebrated round table of Max's Kansas City, where the Andy Warhol contingent held court. In 1969, the pair set up camp at the Hotel Chelsea and soon entered a community of the famous and infamous, the influential artists of the day and the colorful fringe. It was a time of heightened awareness, when the worlds of poetry, rock and roll, art, and sexual politics were colliding and exploding. In this milieu, two kids made a pact to take care of each other. Scrappy, romantic, committed to create, and fueled by their mutual dreams and drives, they would prod and provide for one another during the hungry years.

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.



Author: Patti Smith
Publisher: Ecco Press
Published: 01/01/2010
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.27lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.22w x 1.16d
ISBN: 9780066211312


Award: National Book Critics Circle Award - Finalist
Award: ALA Notable Books - Winner
Award: Lambda Literary Awards - Finalist
Award: National Book Awards - Winner
Award: New Atlantic Independent Booksellers Association Award - Winner
Award: L.A. Times Book Prize - Finalist
Award: Lambda Literary Awards - Finalist


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 09/15/2009 pg. 44
Publishers Weekly 12/07/2009 pg. 43
Kirkus Reviews 12/01/2009
Entertainment Weekly 01/15/2010 pg. 75
Library Journal Annex 11/23/2009
New York Times Book Review 01/31/2010 pg. 1
Village Voice 01/27/2010 pg. 29
Time 02/15/2010 pg. 62
New York Times Book Review 02/07/2010 pg. 22
People Weekly 02/22/2010 pg. 49
Entertainment Weekly 12/24/2010 pg. 118
Village Voice 12/08/2010 pg. 34
People Weekly 12/27/2010 pg. 65
People Weekly 06/13/2011 pg. 61
Publishers Weekly Best Books 11/08/2010 pg. 22
Kirkus Best Books 12/15/2010 pg. 12
New York Review of Books 02/09/2012 pg. 16

About the Author
Smith, Patti: - Patti Smith is a writer, performer, and visual artist. She gained recognition in the 1970s for her revolutionary mergence of poetry and rock and was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2007. Her seminal album Horses, bearing Robert Mapplethorpe's renowned photograph, hasbeen hailed as one of the top one hundred albums of all time. Her books include M Train, Witt, Babel, Woolgathering, The Coral Sea, and Auguries of Innocence.

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