num_pages: 304
description: In Just Kids, Patti Smith's first book of prose, the legendary American artist offers a never-before-seen glimpse of her remarkable relationship with photographer Robert Mapplethorpe in the epochal days of New York City and the Chelsea Hotel in the late sixties and seventies. An honest and moving story of youth and friendship, Smith brings the same unique, lyrical quality to Just Kids as she has to the rest of her formidable body of work--from her influential 1975 album Horses to her visual art and poetry.
language: English
title: Just Kids
titlecomplete: Just Kids
characters: Patti Smith, Robert Mapplethorpe
genres: Audiobook, Biography, Memoir, Autobiography, Music, New York, Biography Memoir, Poetry, Nonfiction, Art
ratings_count: 261693
places: New York City, New York, New York (State)
awards: awardedAt: 1262332800000
name: National Book Award
category: Nonfiction, awardedAt: 1293868800000
name: Stonewall Book Award
category: Nonfiction, awardedAt: 1262332800000
name: Lambda Literary Award
category: Bisexual Nonfiction, awardedAt: 1262332800000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: Autobiography, awardedAt: 1262332800000
name: NAIBA Book of the Year
category: Nonfiction, awardedAt: 1262332800000
name: Goodreads Choice Award
category: Memoir and Autobiography
publisher: Ecco