- Women poets, Chelsea Hotel, Women rock musicians, Photographers
In this memoir, singer-songwriter Patti Smith shares tales of New York City : the denizens of Max's Kansas City, the Hotel Chelsea, Scribner's, Brentano's and Strand bookstores and her new life in Brooklyn with a young man named Robert Mapplethorpe--the man who changed her life with his love, friendship, and genius.
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Earnest, nostalgic, classical in form and grave.
- earnestironic
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Patti Smith, Patti Smith
- First published
- October 1, 2006
- Pages
- 320
- Publisher
- Ecco, 广西师范大学出版社, FISCHER Taschenbuch
- Editions
- 33
- Language
- French, German, heb, English
- ISBN
- 9780062109385
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“I was asleep when he died.”
Patti Smith is an American singer, songwriter, poet, painter and author who became an influential component of the New York City punk rock movement with her 1975 debut album Horses. Called the "punk poet laureate", Smith fused rock and poetry in her work. On November 17, 2010, Smith won the National Book Award for her memoir Just Kids.
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