M Train
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.42 (556 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1101875100 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 272 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-09-09 |
| Language | : | English |
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L.K. said A good friend encouraged me to continue. I almost stopped halfway through. A good friend encouraged me to continue. "It gets better," she said. I continued because of that and because I have loved and respected Patti Smith's music and poetry since I was in my mid-teens. I was a charter member of her fan club in the mid-'70s. I also feel it's my responsibility as a committed reader to finish a book that's been written with grit and authenticity.It got a little better, but I continued to feel like I didn't really kn. It's not what she writes but how. What sort of book is this? Nothing like "Just Kids." It’s not exactly a memoir and certainly not an autobiography. I’d say more than anything it’s a journal—some entries deal with recent events, some with events in the author’s earlier life, and some describe her fantasies and dream life. So, what’s it about? Certain themes occur and recur here—coffee, fascination with television police procedurals, foreign travel, and grief. The en. More of Patti Smith to Savor Holly W.S. Another delicate and quiet memoir to savor by a mind and heart like no other. While 'Just Kids' traced her coming of age as an artist, this memoir shows us the far more hidden, interior life of someone keenly attuned to her experience in the world, her dreams, her memories, and what it all means to her as a wife, mother, artist and human. I really enjoyed this book, and will likely reread it before too long.
They had a son, Jackson, and a daughter, Jesse. Her books include Just Kids, winner of the National Book Award in 2010, Wtt, Babel, Woolgathering, The Coral Sea, and Auguries of Innocence. Smith married the musician Fred Sonic Smith in Detroit in 1980. In 2005, the French Ministry of Culture awarded Smith the title of Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres, the highest honor given to an artist by the French Republic. Smith had her fir
The effect of reading it is something like sitting across a coffee shop table from Patti Smith as she stares dreamily out at the street, pausing occasionally to tell you something she’s just remembered about her late husband Fred, to muse over the Haruki Murakami novel she’s reading, and to push one of her Polaroids across to you. After all, a late plane might be a sign to catch a flight to another destination. She describes a chance meeting with guitarist Fred Sonic Smith, who swiftly stole and sealed her heart with marriage and children. Fans of Just Kids will find here a different kind of beauty: bittersweet and battered by time and circumstance, but still somehow full of
It is a book Patti Smith has described as “a roadmap to my life.”M Train begins in the tiny Greenwich Village café where Smith goes every morning for black coffee, ruminates on the world as it is and the world as it was, and writes in her notebook. It is a powerful, deeply moving book by one of the most remarkable multiplatform artists at work today.. Through prose that shifts fluidly between dreams and reality, past and present, and across a landscape of creative aspirations and inspirations, we travel to Frida Kahlo’s Casa Azul in Mexico; to a meeting of an Arctic explorer’s society in Berlin; to a ramshackle seaside bungalow in New York’s Far Rockaway that Smith acquires just before Hurricane Sandy hits; and to the graves of Genet, Plath, Rimbaud, and Mishima. Braiding despair with hope and consolation, illustrated with her signature Polaroids, M Train is a meditation on travel, detective shows, literature, and coffee. National Best Seller From the National Book Award–winning author of Just Kids: an unforgettable odyssey of a legendary artist, told through the prism of the cafés and haunts she has worked in around the world. Woven throughout are reflections on the writer’s craft and on artistic creation. Here