EAN: 9780525657682

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New York Times Best SellerFrom 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 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 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 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 set in. But as 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 for 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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