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'It was the summer that Coltrane died. The summer Jimi Hendrix set his guitar in flames and China exploded the H-bomb. There were riots in Newark and marches against the war in Vietnam. The world was on the brink of change. It was the summer of love. And the summer of a chance encounter that would change the course of my life. It was the summer I met Robert.' Just Kids is the story of two innocents who shed sheltered lives and braved the city in search of art and freedom. In each other Robert Mapplethorpe and Patti Smith found kindred spirits and pursued their mutual dreams, from Brooklyn to the Chelsea Hotel into the world. Each would eventually reach the pinnacle of artistic achievement and their vow to always care for one another survived painful trials and separations. Mapplethorpe's unforgettable portrait of Smith for the cover of Horses forever fuses their indelible mark on our culture. Intimate and broadly evocative of New York in the early 70s, Just Kids - part romance, part elegy - is finally about friendship in the truest sense, and the artist's calling.
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'With a memoirist's sleight of hand, Patti Smith recaptures
two wondrously malleable young spirits...' -- Scotland on Sunday, January 2010
'Before Maplethorpe died ... Smith promised him that she would write their story. Just Kids is the fulfilment of that promise: a touching tribute to their love as well as an incisive account of being young, ambitious and artistic in Seventies New York ... She pours that sorrow and that maturity into this heartfelt, illuminating book.' -- Telegraph, February 2010
`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
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two wondrously malleable young spirits...' -- Scotland on Sunday, January 2010
'Before Maplethorpe died ... Smith promised him that she would write their story. Just Kids is the fulfilment of that promise: a touching tribute to their love as well as an incisive account of being young, ambitious and artistic in Seventies New York ... She pours that sorrow and that maturity into this heartfelt, illuminating book.' -- Telegraph, February 2010
`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
Winner of the 2010 Non-Fiction National Book Award Patti Smith's evocative, honest and moving coming-of-age story of her extraordinary relationship with the artist Robert Mapplethorpe
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- PublisherBloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication date2010
- ISBN 10 0747548404
- ISBN 13 9780747548409
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages304
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