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It was the summer Coltrane died, the summer of love and riots, and the summer when a chance encounter in Brooklyn led two young people on a path of art, devotion, and initiation.
Ecco
January 2010
On Sale: January 19, 2010
Featuring: Patti Smith; Robert Mapplethorpe
304 pages
ISBN: 006621131X
EAN: 9780066211312
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Memoir
Patti Smith would evolve as a poet and performer, and
Robert Mapplethorpe would direct his highly provocative
style toward photography. Bound in innocence and
enthusiasm, they traversed the city from Coney Island to
Forty-second Street, and eventually to the celebrated round
table of Max's Kansas City, where the Andy Warhol
contingent held court. In 1969, the pair set up camp at the
Hotel Chelsea and soon entered a community of the famous
and infamous—the influential artists of the day and the
colorful fringe. It was a time of heightened awareness,
when the worlds of poetry, rock and roll, art, and sexual
politics were colliding and exploding. In this milieu, two
kids made a pact to take care of each other. Scrappy,
romantic, committed to create, and fueled by their mutual
dreams and drives, they would prod and provide for one
another during the hungry years. Just Kids begins as a love story and ends as an elegy. It
serves as a salute to New York City during the late sixties
and seventies and to its rich and poor, its hustlers and
hellions. A true fable, it is a portrait of two young
artists' ascent, a prelude to fame.
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