Year of The Monkey
ISBN-13:
9781526614759
ISBN-10:
1526614758
Author:
Smith Patti
Publication date:
2019
Publisher:
BLOOMSBURY
Format:
Hardcover
176 pages
Category:
Arts & Literature
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ISBN-13:
9781526614759
ISBN-10:
1526614758
Author:
Smith Patti
Publication date:
2019
Publisher:
BLOOMSBURY
Format:
Hardcover
176 pages
Category:
Arts & Literature
Summary
Year of The Monkey (ISBN-13: 9781526614759 and ISBN-10: 1526614758), written by authors
Smith Patti, was published by BLOOMSBURY in 2019.
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Description
From the National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids and M Train, a profound, beautifully realized memoir in which dreams and reality are vividly woven into a tapestry of one transformative year.Following a run of New Year's concerts at San Francisco's legendary Fillmore, Patti Smith finds herself tramping the coast of Santa Cruz, about to embark on a year of solitary wandering. Unfettered by logic or time, she draws us into her private wonderland, with no design yet heeding signs, including a talking sign that looms above her, prodding and sparring like the Cheshire Cat. In February, a surreal lunar year begins, bringing with it unexpected turns, heightened mischief, and inescapable sorrow. In a stranger's words, "Anything is possible: after all, it's the year of the monkey." For Patti Smith - inveterately curious, always exploring, tracking thoughts, writing the year evolves as one of reckoning with the changes in life's gyre: with loss, aging, and a dramatic shift in the political landscape of America. Smith melds the Western landscape with her own dreamscape. Taking us from Southern California to the Arizona desert; to a Kentucky farm as the amanuensis of a friend in crisis; to the hospital room of a valued mentor; and by turns to remembered and imagined places - this haunting memoir blends fact and fiction with poetic mastery. The unexpected happens; grief and disillusionment. But as Patti Smith heads toward a new decade in her own life, she offers this balm to the reader: her wisdom, wit, gimlet eye, and above all, a rugged hope of a better world. Riveting, elegant, often humorous, illustrated by Smith's signature Polaroids, Year of the Monkey is a moving and original work, a touchstone for our turbulent times.
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