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Just Kids is a memoir by Patti Smith, published on January 19, 2010, documenting her relationship with artist Robert Mapplethorpe. [1] "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.
Jan 19, 2010 · Read 23.9k reviews from the world’s largest community for readers. In Just Kids, Patti Smith's first book of prose, the legendary American artist offers a …
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Nov 2, 2010 · A National Book Award-winning memoir of Smith's relationship with photographer Robert Mapplethorpe in New York City in the late 1960s and early 1970s. A portrait of two young artists' ascent, a prelude to fame, and a tribute to the city and the era.
- Ecco Press
- $11.2
Jan 19, 2010 · 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.
- Ecco Press
- $27.99
Jan 19, 2010 · 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...
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- Patti Smith
- Harper Collins, 2010
A National Book Award-winning memoir of Smith's relationship with the artist Robert Mapplethorpe, from their chance meeting in 1967 to their friendship and artistic collaboration. A portrait of New York in the late '60s and '70s, with its cultural and political scenes, and of two young artists struggling to make it.
Jan 18, 2010 · “Just Kids” captures a moment when Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe were young, inseparable, perfectly bohemian and completely unknown.