TCOM Advent Calendar 2010: Just Kids by Patti Smith

The National Book Award-winning first book of prose--autobiographical, no less--from maybe the greatest rock 'n' roll poetess ever in history, Just Kids details the 1960's and 1970's New York City that no longer looks, feels, smells or is that way, a time where a young Patti Smith met a young Robert Mapplethorpe and their inseparable lives for many years, tracing the early history of Mapplethorpe's beginnings (his first camera, his rise to fame and glamor) as well as Smith's (her first-ever thea...

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