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Just Kids

by Patti Smith

Narrator Patti Smith

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Length 9 hours 50 minutes

Language English

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“Settle into Smith's narration. Distinctive and, I found, soothing. Her early creative life was full of struggle and chance meetings. She talks about them as if she were simply going about her daily errands. But the art she and those in her world created was paradigm (I finally found a use for that word) shifting. Her biggest hit, arguably, with Bruce Springsteen barely gets a mention. That makes sense, though, because this memoir is about her complicated and loving relationship with Robert Mapplethorpe. ”
— Doug • Madison Street Books

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“Patti Smith's finest piece of nonfiction, brimming with love and dedication for Robert Mapplethorpe.”
— Allison • Open Secrets Independent Booksellers

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#3 in Bestselling Art Audiobooks

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 Kids as she has to the rest of her formidable body of work—from her influential 1975 album Horses to her visual art and poetry.

Biography & Memoir Art Music Nonfiction

Patti Smith is a writer, performer, and visual artist. She gained recognition in the 1970s for her revolutionary mergence of poetry and rock and was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2007. Her seminal album Horses, bearing Robert Mapplethorpe’s renowned photograph, hasbeen hailed as one of the top one hundred albums of all time. Her books include M Train, Witt, Babel, Woolgathering, The Coral Sea, and Auguries of Innocence.