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Condition
Like New: A book that looks new but has been read. Cover has no visible wear, and the dust jacket ...
Signed
No
Original Language
English
Edition
First Edition
ISBN
9780066211312
Book Title
Just Kids : a National Book Award Winner
Item Length
9in
Publisher
HarperCollins
Publication Year
2010
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Item Height
1.1in
Author
Patti Smith
Genre
Photography, Biography & Autobiography, Literary Criticism, History
Topic
Women, Women Authors, United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, De, Md, NJ, NY, Pa), Individual Photographers / General, Composers & Musicians, General, Literary, Artists, Architects, Photographers
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
19.2 Oz
Number of Pages
304 Pages

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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.

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Publisher
HarperCollins
ISBN-10
006621131x
ISBN-13
9780066211312
eBay Product ID (ePID)
9038282543

Product Key Features

Book Title
Just Kids : a National Book Award Winner
Author
Patti Smith
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Women, Women Authors, United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, De, Md, NJ, NY, Pa), Individual Photographers / General, Composers & Musicians, General, Literary, Artists, Architects, Photographers
Publication Year
2010
Genre
Photography, Biography & Autobiography, Literary Criticism, History
Number of Pages
304 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
9in
Item Height
1.1in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
19.2 Oz

Additional Product Features

Lc Classification Number
Ml420.S672a3 2010
Reviews
Remarkable, evocative... JUST KIDS is more than just a gift to [Smith's] ex-lover; it's a gift to everyone who has ever been touched by their art, and to everyone who's ever been in love. Like the best of Smith's music and Mapplethorpe's art, this book is haunting and unforgettable., [Just Kids] reminds us that innocence, utopian ideals, beauty and revolt are enlightenment's guiding stars in the human journey. Her book recalls, without blinking or faltering, a collective memory - one that guides us through the present and into the future., 'Sometimes there is justice in the world. That was my first thought when I heard that Patti Smith had won the National Book Award this fall for her glorious memoir, Just Kids.' (Maureen Corrigan's favorite books of 2010, NPR's Fresh Air), 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. If only we could all be so free-spirited., A story of art, identity, devotion, discovery, and love, the book is [Smith's] first prose work...[it] conjures up the passionate collaboration--as lovers, friends, soul mates, and creators--that she and Mapplethorpe embarked on from the summer they met in Brooklyn in 1967., The most compelling memoir by a rock artist since Bob Dylan's 'Chronicles: Volume One,' written with intimacy and grace...., Smith's beautifully crafted love letter to her friend Robert Mapplethorpe functions as a memento mori of a relationship fueled by passion for art and writing. Her elegant eulogy lays bare the chaos and the creativity so embedded in that earlier time and in Mapplethorpe's life and work., To read JUST KIDS is to be struck by how powerfully the two, especially Smith, believed in the power of art....Despite her music's angry clamor, despite his sometimes revolting images, Smith and Mapplethorpe retain, in her telling, a primal, childlike innocence., [Just Kids] reminds us that innocence, utopian ideals, beauty and revolt are enlightenment's guiding stars in the human journey. Her book recalls, without blinking or faltering, a collective memory — one that guides us through the present and into the future., Composed of incandescent sentences more revelatory than anything from Patti Smith's poems or songs, her romantic memoir also reveals what blunt narrative instruments the earlier career bios of her and photographer Robert Mapplethorpe have been., Patti Smith's memoir of her youth with Robert Mapplethorpe testifies to a rare and ferocious innocence...'Just Kids' is a book utterly lacking in irony or sophisticated cynicism., A revelation. In a spellbinding memoir as notable for its restraint as for its lucidity, its wit as well as its grace, Smith tells the story of how she and Robert Mapplethorpe found each other... beautifully crafted, vivid, and indelible., Deeply affecting...a vivid portrayal of a bygone New York that could support a countercultural artistic firmament...the power of this book comes from [Smith's] ability to recall lucid memories in straightforward prose., One of the best books ever written on becoming an artist...Jesus may have died for somebody's sins, but Patti Smith lives and writes and sings for all of us., [A] beautifully crafted love letter to [Robert Mapplethorpe]...Smith transports readers to what seemed like halcyon days for art and artists in New York...[a] tender and tough memoir...[an] elegant eulogy., Smith's writing about her early days with Mapplethorpe is fervid and incantatory but never falls into incoherence., A shockingly beautiful book...a classic, a romance about becoming an artist in the city, written in a spare, simple style of boyhood memoirs like Frank Conroy's 'Stop Time.', Patti Smith's telling of the years she spent with Robert Mapplethorpe is full of optimism sprinkled with humor...JUST KIDS...is sorely lacking in irony or cynicism; Smith's worldview is infectious. She's a jumble of influences, but that's part of her charm., A heartbreakingly sweet recollection of just that sort of vanished Bohemian life...Just as [Smith] stands out as an artiste in a movement based on collectivism, her singular voice gleams among rock memoirs as a work of literature., [JUST KIDS] offers a revealing account of the fears and insecurities harbored by even the most incendiary artists, as well as their capacity for reverence and tenderness., “The most enchantingly evocative memoir of funky-but-chic New York in the late 1960s and early 1970s that any alumnus has yet committed to print.â€�, A moving portrait of the artist as a young woman, and a vibrant profile of Smith's onetime boyfriend and lifelong muse, Robert Mapplethorpe, who died of AIDS in 1989...JUST KIDS is ultimately a wonderful portal into the dawn of Smith's art., Smith lovingly depicts the denizens of the Chelsea Hotel - is that Janis Joplin at the bar? - and the rock club CBGB, all the while pondering how to be an uncompromising artist who nonetheless needs to pay the rent., More than 30 years after its release, Horses still has the power to shock and inspire young musicians to express themselves with unbridled passion. Now she brings the same raw, lyrical quality to her first book of prose., In the end, [JUST KIDS is] not just an ode to Mapplethorpe, but a love letter to New York City's '70s art scene itself., A remarkable book --sweet and charming and many other words you wouldn't expect to apply to a punk-rock icon., JUST KIDS describes [Smith and Mapplethorpe's] ascent with a forthright sweetness that will ring true to anyone who knows her work., Terrifically evocative and splendidly titled...the most spellbinding and diverting portrait of funky-but-chic New York in the late '60s and early '70s that any alumnus has committed to print....This enchanting book is a reminder that not all youthful vainglory is silly; sometimes it's preparation., [Just Kids] reminds us that innocence, utopian ideals, beauty and revolt are enlightenment's guiding stars in the human journey. Her book recalls, without blinking or faltering, a collective memory -- one that guides us through the present and into the future., Astonishing on many levels, most notably for Smith's lapidary prose....[JUST KIDS] is simply one of the best memoirs to be published in recent years: inspiring, sad, wise and beautifully written., 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., An utterly charming, captivating, intimate portrait of a late 1960s and early 1970s period of intense artistic ferment in downtown Manhattan significantly shaped and keenly observed by rock firebrand Smith., 'Smith lovingly depicts the denizens of the Chelsea Hotel - is that Janis Joplin at the bar? - and the rock club CBGB, all the while pondering how to be an uncompromising artist who nonetheless needs to pay the rent.' (Boston Globe), Sometimes there is justice in the world. That was my first thought when I heard that Patti Smith had won the National Book Award this fall for her glorious memoir, Just Kids., The most enchantingly evocative memoir of funky-but-chic New York in the late 1960s and early 1970s that any alumnus has yet committed to print., Smith s beautifully crafted love letter to her friend Robert Mapplethorpe functions as a memento mori of a relationship fueled by passion for art and writing. Her elegant eulogy lays bare the chaos and the creativity so embedded in that earlier time and in Mapplethorpe s life and work.
Copyright Date
2010
Lccn
2010-279646
Dewey Decimal
782.421660922
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes

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  • by alchemistoxford
    Mar 18, 2020Top favourable review

    A masterpiece by a poet laureate of the artistic community of the 1970s when art and music changed the world - highly recommended.

    Very good condition sans dj.

    Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-OwnedSold by: thrift.books

  • by the.thwe.smkbsbb
    Feb 28, 2022

    JUST KIDS

    Beautifully written book of Patti Smith’s relationship with photographer Robert Mapplethorpe. Heartbreaking, quirky and very moving.

    Verified purchase: YesCondition: NewSold by: pinkheart222

  • by douc-patr
    Jul 08, 2018

    Haven't read it yet but

    Every body that has said it's excellent...very good condition...just need the time...

    Verified purchase: Yes

  • by thunderchicsattic
    Jan 03, 2011

    Loved It!

    Who knew Patti Smith had such a literary side other than her poems & music. A terrific read - I am of the same generation but took the usual path - marriage, kids then a career later in life while Patti had the grit to seek her fortune in the big apple all alone & with little resources while a just a young girl. I thoroughly enjoyed Patti's account of her early days in New York city & her brushes with the great of so many genres of music, art etc. She condensed so much living into her book that I might have liked to see more of her creative process but that perhaps is better in another book. Great job Patti!!

  • by bkel4105
    Mar 03, 2022

    wonderful

    what a special story easy read

    Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-OwnedSold by: second.sale

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