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| Verlag | Penguin Random House |
| Auflage | 2020 |
| Seiten | 224 |
| Format | 13,8 x 1,6 x 20,2 cm |
| Gewicht | 267 g |
| Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
| EAN | 9781984898920 |
| Bestell-Nr | 98489892UA |
NATIONAL BESTSELLER Riveting, elegant, humorous this "picaresque voyage through Patti Smith s dreams and life, blending fiction and reality, conjured characters and actual ones (The New York Times) is a moving and original work, a touchstone for our turbulent times. Illustrated by Smith s signature Polaroids.
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 landsc ape 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.
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).