From the author of the National Book Award winning Just Kids, an unforgettable odyssey into the writer’s obsessive mind, a case of lingering malaise and the journey she takes in search of consolation and inspiration
Patti Smith’s memoir Just Kids was a number one New York Times and Sunday Times bestseller and awarded the National Book Award for non-fiction in 2010. She is the recipient of the Commandeur de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and The Polar Award. She was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2008 and received ASCAP’s Founders Award for a Lifetime Achievement in 2010. She lives in New York.
This book is so honest and pure as to count as a true rapture
*Joan Didion*
Patti Smith has graced us with a poetic masterpiece, a rare and
privileged invitation to unlatch a treasure chest never before
breached
*Johnny Depp*
A tender, harrowing, often hilarious portrait of young lovers
forging their paths in an eccentric milieu of Beat poets, Warhol
socialites, and transvestites, rock stars and artists
*Vogue*
The most beautiful, incredible autobiography – it will make you
ache for a time and a place that you probably never knew, New York
in the 1970s
*Nick Hornby*
She was once our savage Rimbaud, but suffering has turned her into
our St John of the Cross, a mystic full of compassion
*Edmund White*
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