Year of the Monkey
Year of the Monkey
Smith, Patti
product information
Condition: New, UPC: 9781984898920, Publication Date: Tue, September 1, 2020, Type: Paperback ,
join & start selling
description
ting, elegant, humorous--this "picaresque voyage through Patti Smith's dreams and life, blending fiction and reality, conjured characters and actual ones" (The New York Times) is a moving and original work, a touchstone for our turbulent times. Illustrated by Smith's signature Polaroids.

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 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.

Including a new chapter, "Epilogue of an Epilogue," and ten new photos, Year of the Monkey "reminds us that despair and possibility often spring from the same source" (Los Angeles Times).

reviews

Be the first to write a review

member goods

No member items were found under this heading.

notems store

Suzuki Violin School, Volume 3: ...

by Suzuki, Shinichi

Music Title /Paperback

$17.49

Halloween Favorites

by Hal Leonard Corp

Music Title /Paperback

$8.24

listens & views

LIVE FROM NEW YORK TO ...

by BROWN,RAY

COMPACT DISC

out of stock

$10.75

WRECKSHOP

by AROE AND SOUNDMAKERS

COMPACT DISC

out of stock

$12.99

TIME TEAM

by SLUGABED

VINYL LP

out of stock

$25.99

GAME OF THRONES

by WEST,KANYE

COMPACT DISC

$15.25

Return Policy

All sales are final

Shipping

No special shipping considerations available.
Shipping fees determined at checkout.