Ebook {Epub PDF} Just Kids by Patti Smith

11 rows · It was that summer when Patti Smith met Robert Mapplethorpe. Just Kids is a love story of /5(K).  · Just Kids by Patti Smith. P atti Smith has a mythic imagination. As a young, desperately poor poet from southern New Jersey, she headed to Estimated Reading Time: 8 mins.  · All this is the subject of “Just Kids,” Smith’s terrifically evocative and splendidly titled new memoir. At one level, the book’s interest is a given; to devotees of downtown Manhattan’s Estimated Reading Time: 9 mins.

Patti Smith calls the book, Just Kids, a memoir rather than an autobiography. Her book is almost poetic in nature and written in a beautiful and engaging way. From the first pages, the reader is drawn to her words and imagery. In describing one of her first memories, that of a swan on a pond, she says, "the river emptied into a wide lagoon. Share - Just Kids by Patti Smith (, Trade Paperback) Just Kids by Patti Smith (, Trade Paperback) out of 5 stars 17 product ratings. average based on 17 product ratings. 5. 15 users rated this 5 out of 5 stars 4. 2 users rated this 4 out of 5 stars 2. 3. Patti Smith tells the story of her relationship with Mapplethorpe against the backdrop of the s and s in her affecting and lovely memoir, Just Kids. It recently won the National Book Award for nonfiction. During the s Smith established herself as a poet, artist, rocker, and all-around American troubadour in the tradition of Walt.

In Just Kids, Patti Smith's 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. It was that summer when Patti Smith met Robert Mapplethorpe. Just Kids is a love story of. Just Kids is a memoir by Patti Smith, published on Janu, documenting her relationship with artist Robert Mapplethorpe. "I didn't write it to be cathartic," she noted. "I wrote it because Robert asked me to Our relationship was such that I knew what he would want and the quality of what he deserved. So that was my agenda for writing that book. I wrote it to fulfil my vow to him, which was on his deathbed. In finishing, I did feel that I'd fulfilled my promise.".