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by Patti Smith
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Peace, Love & Books
Peace, Love & Books rated it 14 years ago
A beautifully written, intimate and vivid memoir in which Smith chronicles her relationship with Robert Mapplethorpe. Smith and Mapplethorpe seem the very definition of "soul mates." It's a poignant love story. Smith also offers great snapshots of the NYC art, literary music scenes of the late 60s a...
Melody Murray's Books
Melody Murray's Books rated it 15 years ago
Patti Smith has turned in a lovely, almost transcendent memoir of her life with Robert Mapplethorpe. Two starving artists in New York- both of them destined for fame- what's not to love about that? Oh, and they were smack in the middle of all the happening music, all the beautiful people. While the ...
Bettie's Books
Bettie's Books rated it 15 years ago
Patti Smith reads from her new memoir of her life in New York in the late 1960s and 1970s. Abridged by Jeremy Osborne.
It's a Hardback Life
It's a Hardback Life rated it 56 years ago
The runaway artist is a typical phase of adolescence, and the true measurement of one’s devotion to a creative life is the ability to sustain the kind of drive that can keep you going through the hunger, cold, loneliness and (perhaps worst of all) the disillusionment of adulthood. Patti Smith and R...
Books are Food for the Soul
Books are Food for the Soul rated it 56 years ago
Born in 1942, I was too old to appreciate the punk movement when it made its appearance. I can remeber seeing a photo op of Patti Smith and Sam Shepard in a 70's issue of Life magazine and thinking that both these people really needed a bath (!). On the advice of Rolling Stone,I picked up the Horse...
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