Just Kids

Release on 2010-01-19 | by Patti Smith

A cloth bag containing fourteen copies of the title, that may also include a folder with miscellaneous notes, discussion questions, biographical information, and reading lists to assist book group discussion leaders.

Author: Patti Smith
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 9780066211312
Category: Biography & Autobiography
Page: 304
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Just Kids

It was the summer Coltrane died, the summer of love and riots, and the summer when a chance encounter in Brooklyn led two young people on a path of art, devotion, and initiation. Patti Smith would evolve as a poet and performer, and Robert Mapplethorpe would direct his highly provocative style toward photography. Bound in innocence and enthusiasm, they traversed the city from Coney Island to Forty-second Street, and eventually to the celebrated round table of Max's Kansas City, where the Andy Warhol contingent held court. In 1969, the pair set up camp at the Hotel Chelsea and soon entered a community of the famous and infamous—the influential artists of the day and the colorful fringe. It was a time of heightened awareness, when the worlds of poetry, rock and roll, art, and sexual politics were colliding and exploding. In this milieu, two kids made a pact to take care of each other. Scrappy, romantic, committed to create, and fueled by their mutual dreams and drives, they would prod and provide for one another during the hungry years. Just Kids begins as a love story and ends as an elegy. It serves as a salute to New York City during the late sixties and seventies and to its rich and poor, its hustlers and hellions. A true fable, it is a portrait of two young artists' ascent, a prelude to fame.

Language: en
Pages: 304

Just Kids

Authors: Patti Smith

Categories: Biography & Autobiography

Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-01-19 - Publisher: Harper Collins

Language: en
Pages: 384

Just Kids illustrated

Authors: Patti Smith

Categories: Biography & Autobiography

Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-10-03 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Patti's Smith's exquisite prose is generously illustrated in this full-color edition of her classic coming-of-age memoir, Just Kids. New York locations vividly come to life where, as young artists, Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe met and fell in love: a first apartment in Brooklyn, Times Square with John and Yoko's

Language: en
Pages: 25

Quicklet on Patti Smith's Just Kids (CliffNotes-like Summary)

Authors: Adam McKibbin

Categories: Study Aids

Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-02-24 - Publisher: Hyperink Inc

ABOUT THE BOOK Plenty has been written about Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe, two of the more celebrated artists to emerge from the vibrant New York artistic circles of the ‘70s. Now Smith shares her story - or at least part of it - in her own words, with Just

Language: en
Pages: 40

Just Kids

Authors: Ellen B. Senisi

Categories: Juvenile Fiction

Type: BOOK - Published: 1998 - Publisher: Dutton Childrens Books

Second-grader Cindy is assigned to spend part of each day in the class for students with special needs, where she finds out that even though some kids may learn differently or have different abilities, they are all "just kids."

Language: en
Pages: