Woolgathering

Author(s): Patti Smith

Biography / Memoir

In this small, luminous memoir, the National Book Award-winner Patti Smith revisits the most sacred experiences of her early years, with truths so vivid they border on the surreal. The author entwines her childhood self - and its 'clear, unspeakable joy' - with memories both real and envisioned from her twenties on New York's MacDougal Street, the street of cafes. Woolgathering was completed in Michigan, on Patti Smith's 45th birthday and originally published in a slim volume from Raymond Foye's Hanuman Books. Twenty years later, Bloomsbury is proud to present it in a much augmented edition, featuring writing that was omitted from the book's first printing, along with new photographs and illustrations.

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National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids, Patti Smith writes of her childhood in this glittering memoir

A poet of distinction New York Times on Just Kids A sharp, elegiac and finely crafted tribute to their childlike, pre-fame romance, set against the thrilling back drop of New York's countercultural blast Sunday Times The most beautiful, incredible autobiography - it will make you ache for a time and a place that you probably never knew, New York in the 1970s Nick Hornby Patti Smith has graced us with a poetic masterpiece, a rare and privileged invitation to unlatch a treasure chest never before breached Johnny Depp This book is so honest and pure as to count as a true rapture Joan Didion

A writer, performer, and visual artist, Patti Smith has exhibited her drawings and photographs internationally, most recently Camera Solo at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum in Hartford. She has recorded thirteen albums, launched by the seminal Horses in 1975. Her many books include Witt, Babel, The Coral Sea, Auguries of Innocence and Just Kids, which won the National Book Award in 2010. Patti Smith lives in New York City.

General Fields

  • : 9781408832301
  • : Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • : Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • : 0.133
  • : January 2012
  • : 178mm X 111mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : April 2012
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : ill
  • : BM
  • : 96
  • : 782.42166092
  • : en
  • : 1
  • : Hardback
  • : Patti Smith