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Just Kids

by Patti Smith
$14.16
Just Kids - Thryft
Just Kids - Thryft

Passionate account of art, love, and initiation.

"Just Kids" is a touching memoir that captures the essence of two young artists' love and devotion, their struggles and triumphs as they navigate the art world in New York City during the late sixties and seventies. Patti Smith's prose is poetic and raw, offering an intimate and honest look into her deep bond and friendship with photographer Robert Mapplethorpe. This is a must-read for anyone who is passionate about art, love, and initiation.

  • National Book Award for Nonfiction (2010)
  • Stonewall Book Award Nominee for Nonfiction (2011)
  • Lambda Literary Award Nominee for Bisexual Nonfiction (2010)
  • National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee for Autobiography (2010)
  • NAIBA Book of the Year for Nonfiction (2010)
  • Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Memoir and Autobiography (2010)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

Just Kids

by Patti Smith
$14.16
ISBN: 9780060936228
Authors: Patti Smith
Publisher: Ecco
Date of Publication: 2010-11-02
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Art, Creative Nonfiction, Music, Biographies & Memoirs
Related Topics: Autobiography, Art, Biography, Biography Memoir, Memoir, Music, Autobiography, Biography, Biography Memoir, Memoir
Goodreads rating: 4.21
(rated by 274456 readers)

Description

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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Passionate account of art, love, and initiation.

"Just Kids" is a touching memoir that captures the essence of two young artists' love and devotion, their struggles and triumphs as they navigate the art world in New York City during the late sixties and seventies. Patti Smith's prose is poetic and raw, offering an intimate and honest look into her deep bond and friendship with photographer Robert Mapplethorpe. This is a must-read for anyone who is passionate about art, love, and initiation.

  • National Book Award for Nonfiction (2010)
  • Stonewall Book Award Nominee for Nonfiction (2011)
  • Lambda Literary Award Nominee for Bisexual Nonfiction (2010)
  • National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee for Autobiography (2010)
  • NAIBA Book of the Year for Nonfiction (2010)
  • Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Memoir and Autobiography (2010)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.