The Year of the Monkey
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Förlag | Bloomsbury |
Genre | Memoarer och biografier |
Format | Häftad |
Språk | Engelska |
Antal sidor | 256 |
Vikt | 0 |
Utgiven | 2019-10-01 |
ISBN | 9781526614773 |
From the National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids and M Train, a profound,
beautifully realized memoir in which dreams and reality are vividly woven into a
tapestry of one transformative year.
Following a run of New Years concerts at San Franciscos 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 strangers words, Anything is possible: after all, its 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 lifes 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 Smiths signature Polaroids, Year of the
Monkey is a moving and original work, a touchstone for our turbulent times.