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Jan 19, 2010 · Readers share their opinions and ratings of Patti Smith's memoir about her relationship with Robert Mapplethorpe in New York City in the 1960s and 1970s. Find out why this book is a National Book Award winner and a classic of rock and roll literature.
Just Kids is a memoir by Patti Smith, published on January 19, 2010, documenting her relationship with artist Robert Mapplethorpe. "I didn't write it to be cathartic," she noted. "I wrote it because Robert asked me to… Our relationship was such that I knew what he would want and the quality of what he deserved.
Nov 2, 2010 · 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.
Jan 29, 2010 · The downtown rocker Patti Smith’s memoir of her early career and her relationship with Robert Mapplethorpe is a spellbinding, diverting portrait of funky-but-chic New York in the late ’60s and ...
Jan 19, 2010 · 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.
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.
Apr 19, 2010 · Winner of the 2010 Non-Fiction National Book Award. Patti Smith's definitive memoir is an evocative, honest and moving coming-of-age story of her extraordinary...
