Just Kids
“This book is so honest and pure as to count as true rapture.”
Joan Didion, New York Times bestselling author
A Publishers Weekly Top 10 Book of the Year
A ALA Notable Book for Nonfiction
Winner of the Publishers Weekly Listen-Up Award for Best Audiobook
Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize
Oprah Pick for Best Memoirs of a Generation
A People Magazine Best Book of 2010
A Literary Hub Pick of the 10 Best Memoirs of the Decade
Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography
A NPR Best Book of the Year
A Village Voice Pick of the Year's Best Books
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year
In Just Kids, Patti Smiths first book of prose, the legendary American artist offers a never-before-seen glimpse of her remarkable relationship with photographer Robert Mapplethorpe in the epochal days of New York City and the Chelsea Hotel in the late sixties and seventies. An honest and moving story of youth and friendship, Smith brings the same unique, lyrical quality to Just Kids as she has to the rest of her formidable body of workfrom her influential 1975 album Horses to her visual art and poetry.
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