Éramos unos niños – Plastic Books

Éramos unos niños

Debolsillo
Patti Smith, Rosa Pérez Pérez
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Pages
304 pp.
Language
Spanish
Publisher
Debolsillo
Year
2012
ISBN
9788499894454
Dimensions
12.5 x 1.55 x 19.08 cm
Written by
Patti Smith and Rosa Pérez Pérez

WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD

The iconic book by Patti Smith, in which she recounts her relationship with Robert Mapplethorpe: a tribute to friendship whose pages, full of vitality and humor, bring us back the flavor of a New York where almost anything was possible.

ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE LAST 25 YEARS ACCORDING TO AMAZON

“Just Kids is the book that has influenced me the most. It’s an incredible book and a time capsule of when creativity was truly emerging.”
Dua Lipa

It was the summer Coltrane died. [ ] The hippies raised their empty arms and China detonated the hydrogen bomb. Jimi Hendrix set fire to his guitar in Monterey. [...] It was the summer of love. And in that changing and inhospitable climate, a chance encounter changed the course of my life. It was the summer I met Robert Mapplethorpe.

It happened in July 1967 and they were just kids, but from then on Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe forged a friendship that would only end with the death of the great photographer in 1989. This splendid memoir, winner of the National Book Award, tells the story of the shared life of two artists, both enthusiastic and passionate, who crossed the outskirts of New York in great strides to reach the nerve center of new art. That’s how they ended up settling in the Chelsea Hotel and became protagonists of a world now gone where Allen Ginsberg, Andy Warhol and his crew reigned, and the great music bands that marked the last years of the 20th century were created, while AIDS wreaked havoc.

Far from being a sad and nostalgic book, Just Kids is a tribute to unrestrained friendship, and its pages, full of vitality and humor, bring us back the flavor of that great city where there was a time when almost anything was possible.

Critics have said:
“This book is so whole and pure that it is a true ecstasy.”
Joan Didion

“A moving account of the eagerness of beings willing to put their souls at the service of art, inspired by Rimbaud, Dylan, Genet, and other idolized names.”
Rafa Cervera, Babelia

“Patti Smith is not only a great artist, she is a sorceress, that is, someone in contact with other levels of reality.”
William S. Burroughs

“Patti Smith has honored us with a masterpiece, a splendid invitation to open a treasure chest that had never been opened before.”
Johnny Depp

“Patti Smith was long ago the wild herald of Rimbaud, but pain turned her into a San Juan de la Cruz, a mystical person full of mercy.”
Edmund White

“I have given Just Kids to many friends, not only for the legacy it conveys and the incredible story of Patti and Robert’s paths as artists, but also because I found it so visual that I thought it was the perfect gateway to start reading. [...] In reality, it is a love story that navigates between the romantic and the platonic.”
Dua Lipa, Service95 Book Club

“Patti Smith has a way of writing that embraces without ever touching you.[...] A way of creating that is only within reach of people with such a sharp sensitivity that they can connect with other worlds [...]. It doesn’t matter if it’s a song, a poem, a drawing, or a photograph: everything in her invites transcendence.”
Eva Blanco Medina, Vogue

Title
Éramos unos niños
Author
Patti Smith, Rosa Pérez Pérez
Publisher
Debolsillo
Published
2012
Availability
In stock
Language
Español
Pages
304 pp.
ISBN-13
9788499894454
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