Beskrivning
Beskrivning
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 atapestry of one transformative year.Following a run of New Years concerts at San Franciscos legendary Fillmore, PattiSmith finds herself tramping the coast of Santa Cruz, about to embark on a year ofsolitary wandering. Unfettered by logic or time, she draws us into her privatewonderland, with no design yet heeding signs, including a talking sign that looms aboveher, prodding and sparring like the Cheshire Cat. In February, a surreal lunar yearbegins, bringing with it unexpected turns, heightened mischief, and inescapable sorrow.In a strangers words, Anything is possible: after all, its the year of the monkey. ForPatti Smith – inveterately curious, always exploring, tracking thoughts, writing the yearevolves as one of reckoning with the changes in lifes gyre: with loss, aging, and adramatic shift in the political landscape of America.Smith melds the Western landscape with her own dreamscape. Taking us fromSouthern California to the Arizona desert; to a Kentucky farm as the amanuensis of afriend in crisis; to the hospital room of a valued mentor; and by turns to rememberedand imagined places – this haunting memoir blends fact and fiction with poetic mastery.The unexpected happens; grief and disillusionment. But as Patti Smith heads toward anew decade in her own life, she offers this balm to the reader: her wisdom, wit, gimleteye, and above all, a rugged hope of a better world.Riveting, elegant, often humorous, illustrated by Smiths signature Polaroids, Year of theMonkey is a moving and original work, a touchstone for our turbulent times.
