Bread of Angels: A Memoir by Smith, Patti
Bread of Angels: A Memoir by Smith, Patti

Bread of Angels: A Memoir

A radiant new memoir from artist and writer Patti Smith, author of the National Book Award winner...
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Author: Patti Smith
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Bread of Angels: A Memoir by Smith, Patti

Bread of Angels: A Memoir

$45.89
Bread of Angels: A Memoir by Smith, Patti

Bread of Angels: A Memoir

$45.89
Author: Patti Smith
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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A radiant new memoir from artist and writer Patti Smith, author of the National Book Award winner Just Kids

"God whispers through a crease in the wallpaper," writes Patti Smith in this moving account of her life. A post-World War II childhood unfolds in a condemned housing complex where we enter the child's world of the imagination. Smith, the captain of her loyal and beloved sibling army, vanquishes bullies, communes with the king of tortoises, and searches for sacred silver pennies.

The most intimate of Smith's memoirs, Bread of Angels takes us through her teenage years where the first glimmers of art and romance take hold. Arthur Rimbaud and Bob Dylan emerge as creative role models as she begins to write poetry then lyrics, ultimately merging both into the songs of iconic recordings such as Horses, Wave, and Easter.

She leaves it all behind to marry her one true love, Fred Sonic Smith, with whom she creates a life of devotion and adventure on a canal in St. Clair Shores, Michigan. Here, she invents a room of her own, a low table, a Persian cup, inkwell and pen, entering at dawn to write. The couple spend nights in their landlocked Chris-Craft studying nautical maps and charting new adventures as they start a family.

A series of profound losses mark her life. Grief and gratitude are braided through years of caring for her children, rebuilding her life and, finally, writing again--the one constant in a life driven by artistic freedom and the power of the imagination to transform the commonplace into the magical, and pain into hope. In the final pages, we meet Smith on the road again, the vagabond who travels to commune with herself, who lives to write and writes to live.

Author: Patti Smith
Publisher: Random House
Published: 11/04/2025
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.88lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.40w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9781101875124


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 07/01/2025 pg. 10
BookPage 11/01/2025

About the Author
Patti Smith is the author of the National Book Award winner Just Kids, as well as Woolgathering, M Train, Year of the Monkey, and Collected Lyrics. Her seminal album Horses has been hailed as one of the top 100 albums of all time. Her global exhibitions include Strange Messenger, Land 250, Camera Solo, and Evidence. In 2005, the French Ministry of Culture awarded Smith the title of Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres. Inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2007, Smith is also the recipient of the ASCAP Founders Award, Sweden's Polar Music Prize, the PEN/Audible Literary Service Award, and the Legion d'honneur.
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