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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 …
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.
Nov 2, 2010 · “Just Kids shows how Smith integrated the romance of her twenty-year friendship with Mapplethorpe with her historical preoccupations, elevating them to an almost sacred status. The past, for Smith, has always driven her life forward.
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.
Patti Smith's definitive memoir is an evocative, honest and moving coming-of-age story of her extraordinary relationship with the artist Robert Mapplethorpe. 'Sharp, elegiac and finely crafted' Sunday Times.
Jan 18, 2010 · “Just Kids” captures a moment when Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe were young, inseparable, perfectly bohemian and completely unknown.
Winner of the 2010 Non-Fiction National Book Award. Patti Smith's definitive memoir is an evocative, honest and moving coming-of-age story of her extraordinary relationship with the artist Robert Mapplethorpe. 'Sharp, elegiac and finely crafted' Sunday Times.
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Winner of the 2010 Non-Fiction National Book Award. Patti Smith's definitive memoir is an evocative, honest and moving coming-of-age story of her extraordinary relationship with the artist...
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...
Apr 20, 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...
