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Just Kids: An Autobiography

Name: Just Kids: An Autobiography
Brand: Ecco Press
SKU: 9780066211312
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Contributors:

Patti Smith

Publisher:

Ecco Press

Binding:

Hardcover

Book Category:

Biography & Autobiography

Book Subcategory:

Music, Personal Memoirs, Women

Award:

2010 National Book Awards Winner - Nonfiction Award, 2010 New Atlantic Independent Booksellers Association Award Winner - Nonfiction Award, 2010 National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist - Autobiography Award, 2010 L.A. Times Book Prize Finalist - Current Interest Award, 2011 ALA Notable Books Winner - Nonfiction Award, 2010 Lambda Literary Awards Finalist - Bisexual Nonfiction Award, 2011 Lambda Literary Awards Finalist - Bisexual Nonfiction Award

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Release Date:

2010-01-01

ISBN 13:

9780066211312

Weight:

1.27 lbs

Size:

9.20 x 6.22 x 1.16 inches

Pages:

304

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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.

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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