Ebook {Epub PDF} Just Kids by Patti Smith

 · In “Just Kids” Ms. Smith writes of becoming pregnant at 19 (“I was humbled by nature”) in New Jersey, giving up her baby and heading to New York for a fresh start. Describing herself as Estimated Reading Time: 6 mins.  · Just Kids by Patti Smith. P atti Smith has a mythic imagination. As a young, desperately poor poet from southern New Jersey, she headed to Estimated Reading Time: 8 mins. 11 rows · It was that summer when Patti Smith met Robert Mapplethorpe. Just Kids is a love story of /5(K).

Just Kids by Patti Smith is a major work, an act of creative discovery, and a surprising new step in its author's riveting career. Was there every any doubt that Patti Smith could write? She wrote before she sang, actually, publishing rock criticism in Crawdaddy, Creem and Rolling Stone and several poetry chapbooks before ever entering a. A prelude to fame, Just Kids recounts the friendship of two young artists - Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe - whose passion fueled their lifelong pursuit of art. In , a chance meeting between two young people led to a romance and a lifelong friendship that would carry each to international success never dreamed of. That was my first thought when I heard that Patti Smith had won the National Book Award this fall for her glorious memoir, Just Kids. Maureen Corrigan's favorite books of The most enchantingly evocative memoir of funky-but-chic New York in the late s and early s that any alumnus has yet committed to print.

Just Kids is a memoir by Patti Smith, published on Janu, 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. So that was my agenda for writing that book. I wrote it to fulfil my vow to him, which was on his deathbed. In finishing, I did feel that I'd fulfilled my promise.". It was that summer when Patti Smith met Robert Mapplethorpe. Just Kids is a love story of these two young people who, against all odds, meet, fall in love, and cling to that love long after they’ve chosen other partners, other ways of life, and love. All this is the subject of “Just Kids,” Smith’s terrifically evocative and splendidly titled new memoir. At one level, the book’s interest is a given; to devotees of downtown Manhattan’s.