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Woolgathering
Patti Smith
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Description for Woolgathering
Hardback. National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids, Patti Smith writes of her childhood in this glittering memoir Num Pages: 96 pages, ill. BIC Classification: AVGP; AVH; BM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 118 x 188 x 13. Weight in Grams: 136. 96 pages, ill. National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids, Patti Smith writes of her childhood in this glittering memoir. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: AVGP; AVH; BM. Dimension: 118 x 188 x 13. Weight: 162.
A story of becoming an artist, by the godmother of rock'n'roll: the National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids Patti Smith 'A poet of distinction' New York Times 'Glorious' NPR 'Rare and ferocious' Salon 'Shockingly beautiful' New York Magazine Everything contained in this little book is true, and written just like it was. The writing of it drew me from my strange torpor and I hope that in some measure it will fill the reader with a vague and curious joy... In this small, luminous memoir, the National Book Award-winner Patti Smith revisits the most sacred ... Read more
A story of becoming an artist, by the godmother of rock'n'roll: the National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids Patti Smith 'A poet of distinction' New York Times 'Glorious' NPR 'Rare and ferocious' Salon 'Shockingly beautiful' New York Magazine Everything contained in this little book is true, and written just like it was. The writing of it drew me from my strange torpor and I hope that in some measure it will fill the reader with a vague and curious joy... In this small, luminous memoir, the National Book Award-winner Patti Smith revisits the most sacred ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
96
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
96
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781408832301
SKU
V9781408832301
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About Patti Smith
Patti Smith is a writer, performer and visual artist. She gained recognition in the 1970s for her revolutionary merging of poetry and rock. She has released twelve albums, including Horses, which has been hailed as one of the top one hundred albums of all time by Rolling Stone. Smith had her first exhibit of drawings at the Gotham Book Mart ... Read more
Reviews for Woolgathering
A poet of distinction
New York Times
Smith pares down her prose to a state of vivid impressionism, so enigmatic that even ordinary acts - preparing mint tea, nodding off while sewing - take on spiritual weight ... The passages evoking her childhood do reverberate with serene joy ... Writing was not Smith's first choice ... But any ... Read more
New York Times
Smith pares down her prose to a state of vivid impressionism, so enigmatic that even ordinary acts - preparing mint tea, nodding off while sewing - take on spiritual weight ... The passages evoking her childhood do reverberate with serene joy ... Writing was not Smith's first choice ... But any ... Read more