Year of the Monkey - Hardcover

Year of the Monkey

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 1st Edition. Stated First Edition. 173pp. Bright, clean & tight copy, unread, in FINE condition. "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 also 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. [] Riveting, elegant, often humorous, illustrated with Smith's signature Polaroids, YEAR OF THE MONKEY is a moving and original work--a touchstone for our turbulent times." [jacket copy] "A beautifully realized and unique memoir that chronicles a transformative year in the life of one of our most multi-talented creative voices."--NPR. "Poignant, gorgeous--a picaresque voyage through Patti Smith's dreams and life, blending fiction and reality, conjured characters and actual ones. She writes of seeing her image reflected on the surface of the toaster: 'I noticed I looked young and old simultaneously.' That describes her spirit perfectly."--Maureen Dowd, The New York Times. "A lucid dream of a memoir. . . Smith sees mystical connections everywhere--and, floating along on the drifts of her words, the reader does, too."--The New Yorker. Pristine hardcover in bright red boards, w/brilliant corners & crisp deckle edges, a square & tight binding, wrapped in a fine-as-new jacket. Artikel-Nr. RUB3393

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