Just Kids Patti Smith Softcover 2010 Biography Mapplethorpe

Description: Just Kids. Patti Smith. Softcover. Harper Collins 2010. Excellent condition. The binding is tight. No creasing of the spine. The pages are clean, no markings, no creasing or tears. The covers are clean with very minimal wear. Free domestic shipping USPS Media Mail. WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD“Reading rocker Smith’s account of her relationship with photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, it’s hard not to believe in fate. How else to explain the chance encounter that threw them together, allowing both to blossom? Quirky and spellbinding.” -- PeopleIt 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.

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Book Title: Just Kids

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Narrative Type: Nonfiction

Publisher: HarperCollins

Original Language: English

Item Length: 5.5 in

Intended Audience: Adults

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Edition: First Edition

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Publication Year: 2010

Format: Trade Paperback

Language: English

Item Height: 8 in

Author: Patti Smith

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Genre: Biographies & True Stories, Adult & Erotic, Art & Culture, Leisure, Hobbies & Lifestyle, LGBT, Romance, Sexuality, History, Photography

Topic: Autobiography, Memoir, Music, Contemporary Art, Cultural History, LGBT Studies, Lifestyle, Performing Arts, Popular Culture, Artists, Photographers

Country/Region of Manufacture: United States

Item Weight: 25 oz

Item Width: 1 in

Number of Pages: 306