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JUST KIDS

JUST KIDS

PATTI SMITH

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Publisher:
PENGUIN
Year of publication:
2011
Subject:
Memoir & biography
ISBN:
978-0-7475-6876-6
Pages:
288
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This book presents a portrait of two young artist's ascent - Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe, 'Just Kids' begins as a love story and ends as an elegy. It intends to serve as a salute to New York City during the late sixties and seventies and to its rich and poor, its hustlers and hellions.

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