Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9781526614759
Format: Paper over boards
Year: 2019
Publisher: Bloomsbury


Description:
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER




From the National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids

Selected as Book of the Year by the Daily Telegraph, i paper, Metro and Harper's Bazaar


'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



'A melancholy mood and poetic language distinguish Smith's third memoir' BBC



'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.


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