EAN: 9781526614766

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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids 'Magical' GUARDIAN 'A gripping tale of the search for meaning in times of turbulence - expressed with Smith's signature poetic flair' VOGUE 'Extraordinary ... A tense teasing mix of reality and dream' SUNDAY TIMES 'Her willingness to look closely at life's closing chapters makes for a magical book' WASHINGTON POST 'The 10 books to read in September' 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 Patti 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 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 Smith's signature Polaroids Year of the Monkey is a moving and original work a touchstone for our turbulent times.

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