Beschreibung
Riveting, elegant, humorous-and illustrated by Smith's signature Polaroids-New York Times bestseller Year of the Monkey is a moving and original work, a touchstone for our turbulent times. 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, in which she debates intellectual grifters and spars with the likes of a postmodern Cheshire Cat. Then, in February 2016, a surreal lunar year begins, bringing unexpected turns, heightened mischief, and inescapable sorrow. For Smith-inveterately curious, always exploring, always writing-this becomes a year of reckoning with the changes in life's gyre: with loss, aging, and a dramatic shift in the political landscape of America. Taking us from California to the Arizona desert, from a Kentucky farm to the hospital room of a valued mentor, Smith melds the western landscape with her own dreamscape in a haunting, poetic blend of fact and fiction. As a stranger tells her, "Anything is possible. After all, it's the Year of the Monkey." 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. Named one of NPR's Best Books of the Year-now including a new chapter, "Epilogue of an Epilogue," and ten new photos-Year of the Monkey "reminds us that despair and possibility often spring from the same source" (Los Angeles Times).
| EAN: | 9781984898920 |
| Farbverschnitt: | Generell werden die Bücher ohne Farbverschnitt geliefert, auch wenn die Abbildungen einen Farbverschnitt zeigen. |
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 01.09.2020 |
| Produktform: | Kartoniert |
| Autoren: | Smith, Patti |
| Seitenzahl/Blattzahl: | 224 |
| Abbildungen: | 35 PHOTOGRAPHS IN TEXT; 2C |
| Themenüberschrift: | BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Composers & Musicians |
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| Fachschema: | Englische Bücher / Biografie, Erinnerung~Englische Bücher / Musik~Literaturwissenschaft~Rock (Musik) |
| Fachkategorie: | Biografien: Literatur~Literatur: Geschichte und Kritik~Komponisten und Songwriter~Musiker, Sänger, Bands und Gruppen, Biografien: Kunst und Unterhaltung |
| Imprint-Titels: | Vintage Books |
| Verlag: | Random House LLC US |
| Länge: | 203 mm |
| Breite: | 137 mm |
| Höhe: | 22 mm |
| Gewicht: | 277 gr |
| Genre: | Importe |
| Herkunftsland: | VIETNAM (VN) |