Just Kids Limited Edition

Synopsis

winner Of The 2010 National Book Award For Nonfiction

patti Smith S new York Times Bestselling Memoir, Hailed As Simply One Of The Best Memoirs To Be Published In Recent Years: Inspiring, Sad, Wise And Beautifully Written (san Francisco Chronicle), Now Available As A Stunning Deluxe Limited Edition Hardcover. This Special Edition, Bound In Cloth With A Clamshell Case, Includes A Two-color Interior, A Broadside Featuring A Never-before-published Poem By Patti Smith Called Reflecting Robert, And Is Numbered And Limited To An Edition Of 1,000.

it Was The Summer Coltrane Died, The Summer Of Love And Riots, And The Summer When A Chance Encounter In Brooklyn Led Two Young People On A Path Of Art, Devotion, And Initiation.

patti Smith Would Evolve As A Poet And Performer, And Robert Mapplethorpe Would Direct His Highly Provocative Style Toward Photography. Bound In Innocence And Enthusiasm, They Traversed The City From Coney Island To Forty-second Street, And Eventually To The Celebrated Round Table Of Max's Kansas City, Where The Andy Warhol Contingent Held Court. In 1969, The Pair Set Up Camp At The Hotel Chelsea And Soon Entered A Community Of The Famous And Infamous—the Influential Artists Of The Day And The Colorful Fringe. It Was A Time Of Heightened Awareness, When The Worlds Of Poetry, Rock And Roll, Art, And Sexual Politics Were Colliding And Exploding. In This Milieu, Two Kids Made A Pact To Take Care Of Each Other. Scrappy, Romantic, Committed To Create, And Fueled By Their Mutual Dreams And Drives, They Would Prod And Provide For One Another During The Hungry Years.

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.

new York Magazine

“a Shockingly Beautiful Book...a Classic, A Romance About Becoming An Artist In The City, Written In A Spare, Simple Style Of Boyhood Memoirs Like Frank Conroy’s ‘stop Time.’”