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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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Författare: | Patti Smith |
Titel: | Year Of The Monkey |
Typ: | Bok |
Kategori: | Böcker/Memoarer & Biografier |
Releasedatum: | 2020-09-01 |
Artikelnummer: | 745409 |
Lagerstatus: | Beställningsvara Leveranstid: från 14 vardagar |
EAN: | 9781526614766 |
ISBN: | 1526614766 |
Språk: | Engelska |
Bandtyp: | |
Mått(BxHxD): | 133x198x17 mm |
Vikt: | 265 gram |
Titel: | Year Of The Monkey |
Förlag: | Bloomsbury |
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