Just Kids
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Patti Smith
This book presents a portrait of two young artist's ascent - Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe, 'Just Kids' begins as a love story and ends as an elegy. It intends to serve as a salute to New York City during the late sixties and seventies and to its rich and poor, its hustlers and hellions.
Coming Of Age
Memoir
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Author
Patti Smith
Pages
288
Publisher
A&C Black
Published Date
2011-01-04
ISBN
0747568766 9780747568766
Ratings
Google: 5
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"Vivid and interesting "
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Chrissy
"i found patti’s writing about her and robert’s life during the 60s and 70s really comforting, especially as a young person struggling with questions about identity myself!! would definitely recommend for any young adults dealing with the same struggles and/or are at all interested in the NYC artist scene during the 60s/70s"
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lh
"This book had such an artistic, hippie vibe, and it was deep and touching, in ways I find hard to explain. A complicated relationship in a complicated time."
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Allie Payne
"I appreciate Patti Smith sharing the story of her first love, her artistic soulmate, because it’s often the relationships that don’t work out the way we thought that impact us the most. <br/><br/>I loved the accounting of every nickel and dime, how an encounter with a novel at one point in life can be remembered years later as one of the more notable experiences of a time. In some aspects, I was reminded of Betty Smith’s A Tree Grows in Brooklyn… but perhaps every New York City Tale of self discovery will have an aroma. <br/><br/>How unlikely that someone who wasn’t really intent upon becoming a musician would become one of the greatest. But as much as this story is about Patti, it’s about Robert, and the realizations of two young artists driving to express themselves."
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Abigail Spradlin
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