Just Kids

English

ISBN: 0060936223

EAN: 9780060936228

Category: Biography & Autobiography / Literary/History / United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (Dc, De, Md, Nj, Ny, Pa)/Biography & Autobiography / Artists, Architects, Photographers/Photography / Individual Photographers / General/Biography & Autobiography / Entertainment & Performing Arts/Biography & Autobiography / General/

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers

Release Date: 11/02/2010

Synopsis: 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. 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 Maxs 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.

Awards: American Library Association Notable Books – null  Lambda Literary Awards – null  Los Angeles Times Book Prizes – null  National Book Awards – null  National Book Critics Circle Awards – null  Publishers Weekly Best Books of the Year – null  Stonewall Book Awards – null 

Just Kids

Illustrated: No

Format: Paperback

Height: 0.75 inches

Width: 5.58 inches

Length: 8.25 inches

Weight: 12.84 oz

Pages: 224