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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.
Forlag Knopf
Utgivelsesår 2019
Format Innbundet
ISBN13 9780525657682
EAN 9780525657682
Genre Biografisk litteratur
Omtalt tid 2010-2019
Omtalt sted USA
Omtalt person Patti Smith
Språk Engelsk
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Apens år. Patti Smith
Denne gamle unge kloke dama kan og vet veldig mye. Skrive bla. Lage musikk også.
I denne boka skriver hun omtrent sømløst om tapet av en venn, minner om et annet tap, små store hendelser og minner hun har med seg hvor hun enn er i verden. I denne boka forflytter hun seg både fysisk og i minnene. Vanskelig å beskrive hva boka egentlig handler om, men dere som liker godt flytende sptåk, tanker og utforskning om det ekstensille vil like boka godt.
Patti er en mester å bruke blikket, minnene og språket.
Ingen diskusjoner ennå.
Start en diskusjon om verket Se alle diskusjoner om verketThis is what I know. Sam [Shepard] is dead. My brother is dead. My mother is dead. My father I dead. My husband is dead. My cat is dead. And my dog who was dead in 1957 is still dead. Yet still I keep thinking that something wonderful is about to happen.
the trouble with dreaming is that we eventually wake up.