Year of the Monkey
Patti Smith
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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 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.Binding Type: HardcoverAuthor: Patti SmithPublisher: Knopf Publishing GroupPublished: 09/24/2019ISBN: 9780525657682Pages: 192Weight: 0.70lbsSize: 7.90h x 5.40w x 1.00dReview Citations: Kirkus Reviews 07/15/2019 pg. 76Publishers Weekly 07/22/2019Booklist 08/01/2019 pg. 17Kirkus Reviews Fall Preview 08/15/2019 pg. 35Library Journal 08/16/2019 pg. 1
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Book Title
Year of the Monkey
ISBN
9780525657682
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 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.
Binding Type: Hardcover
Author: Patti Smith
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Published: 09/24/2019
ISBN: 9780525657682
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.40w x 1.00d
Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 07/15/2019 pg. 76
Publishers Weekly 07/22/2019
Booklist 08/01/2019 pg. 17
Kirkus Reviews Fall Preview 08/15/2019 pg. 35
Library Journal 08/16/2019 pg. 1
Binding Type: Hardcover
Author: Patti Smith
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Published: 09/24/2019
ISBN: 9780525657682
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.40w x 1.00d
Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 07/15/2019 pg. 76
Publishers Weekly 07/22/2019
Booklist 08/01/2019 pg. 17
Kirkus Reviews Fall Preview 08/15/2019 pg. 35
Library Journal 08/16/2019 pg. 1
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 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.
Binding Type: Hardcover
Author: Patti Smith
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Published: 09/24/2019
ISBN: 9780525657682
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.40w x 1.00d
Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 07/15/2019 pg. 76
Publishers Weekly 07/22/2019
Booklist 08/01/2019 pg. 17
Kirkus Reviews Fall Preview 08/15/2019 pg. 35
Library Journal 08/16/2019 pg. 1
Binding Type: Hardcover
Author: Patti Smith
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Published: 09/24/2019
ISBN: 9780525657682
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.40w x 1.00d
Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 07/15/2019 pg. 76
Publishers Weekly 07/22/2019
Booklist 08/01/2019 pg. 17
Kirkus Reviews Fall Preview 08/15/2019 pg. 35
Library Journal 08/16/2019 pg. 1
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