From the National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids: an unforgettable odyssey of a legendary artist, told through the prism of cafés and haunts she has worked in around the world. It is a book Patti Smith has described as ‘a roadmap to my life’.
Patti Smith is a writer, performer and visual artist. She gained recognition in the 1970s for her revolutionary merging of poetry and rock. She has released twelve albums, including Horses, which has been hailed as one of the top one hundred albums of all time by Rolling Stone. Smith had her first exhibit of drawings at the Gotham Book Mart in 1973 and has been represented by the Robert Miller Gallery since 1978. Her books include Just Kids, winner of the National Book Award in 2010, Witt, Babel, Woolgathering, The Coral Sea, and Auguries of Innocence. In 2005, the French Ministry of Culture awarded Smith the prestigious title of Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres, the highest honour given to an artist by the French Republic. She was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2007. Smith married Fred Sonic Smith in Detroit in 1980. They had a son, Jackson, and a daughter, Jesse. Smith resides in New York City.
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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