Just Kids (Audio book)

Informationen zum Autor Patti Smith is a writer, performer, and visual artist. She gained recognition in the 1970s for her revolutionary mergence of poetry and rock and was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2007. Her seminal album Horses , bearing Robert Mapplethorpe’s renowned photograph, hasbeen hailed as one of the top one hundred albums of all time. Her books include M Train , Witt , Babel , Woolgathering , The Coral Sea , and Auguries of Innocence . Patti Smith is a writer, performer, and visual artist. She gained recognition in the 1970s for her revolutionary mergence of poetry and rock and was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2007. Her seminal album Horses , bearing Robert Mapplethorpe’s renowned photograph, hasbeen hailed as one of the top one hundred albums of all time. Her books include M Train , Witt , Babel , Woolgathering , The Coral Sea , and Auguries of Innocence . Klappentext “Patti Smith has graced us with a poetic masterpiece.”—Johnny Depp 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. “This book is so honest and pure as to count as a true rapture.”—Joan Didion Zusammenfassung 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. An honest and moving story of youth and friendship! Smith brings the same unique! lyrical quality to Just Kids as she has to the rest of her formidable body of work—from her influential 1975 album Horses to her visual art and poetry. ...

Product details

• Authors: Patti Smith, Patti/ Smith Smith
• Assisted by: Patti Smith (Reader / Narrator)
• Publisher: Harper Collins Usa
• Languages: English
• Product format: CD-Audio
• Released: 31.08.2012
• EAN: 9780062193926
• ISBN: 978-0-06-219392-6
• Dimensions: 133 mm x 145 mm x 40 mm
• Series: HarperCollins AudioBooks; Harper Collins Audio Books; Harper Collins Audio Books
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Contemporary literature (from 1945); Humanities, art, music > Music > Monographs; Biographien (div.), Biographien (div.) : Compact Discs, Smith, Patti, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Women, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Historical, ART: Women Artists, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Political, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: General, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Fashion, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Culinary, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Jewish