Just Kids: An Autobiography (Paperback)

from baswood

[Just Kids] by Patti Smith Just Kids is the perfect title for Patti Smith's autobiography of her early life as a struggling artist in New York in the late 1960's and early 1970's. She looks back on those times with nostalgia, some pride and an adults view of her relationship with Robert Mappletho...

from TomMcGreevy

A loving remembrance of youth, of a relationship past, but one that remained ongoing as long as either partner lived, because the interaction of the two was so central to the concept of self that both held. AIDS ultimately gave a sad ending to the narrative, but the telling of the story settles a...

from DieFledermaus

Patti Smith's engaging memoir is both a wonderful portrait of her close but conflicted relationship with the artist Robert Mapplethorpe and of New York in the late 1960's and early 70's. The book went by very quickly though some parts in the middle are a little too full of name-dropping. Sometime...

from Patrick311

This book is remarkably easy to parody. Here, I'll try:"I was crossing Tompkins Square Park when I ran into a young man wearing a gabardine vest. He smiled at me and called me "Sister." It was a young George Carlin. Robert hated him because he frequently had flakes of rye bread in his beard, but ...

from voracious

I have to admit, I knew very little about Patti Smith or Robert Mapplethorpe prior to reading "Just Kids". I'm so glad that my ignorance didn't stop me from picking this memoir about Patti's relationship with Robert, and the story of their lives together. Patti and Robert were in their late teen ...