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Just Kids

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. An honest and moving story of youth and friendship, Smith brings the same unique, lyrical quality to Just Kidsas she has to the rest of her formidable body of work—from her influential 1975 album Horsesto her visual art and poetry.

Audience
adult
Length
medium · 304 pages
Form
poetry

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