Just Kids - From Brooklyn to Chelsea Hotel

Patti Smith

Ecco Press

2010

304 páginas

10h 8m

ISBN-10: 006621131X

It was the summer Coltrane died, the summer of love and riots, and the summer when a chance encounter in Brooklyn led two young people on a path of art, devotion, and initiation. Patti Smith would evolve as a poet and performer, and Robert Mapplethorpe would direct his highly provocative style toward photography. Bound in innocence and enthusiasm, they traversed the city from Coney Island to Forty-second Street, and eventually to the celebrated round table of Max's Kansas City, where the Andy Warhol contingent held court. In 1969, the pair set up camp at the Hotel Chelsea and soon entered a community of the famous and infamous - the influential artists of the day and the colorful fringe. It was a time of heightened awareness, when the worlds of poetry, rock and roll, art, and sexual politics were colliding and exploding. In this milieu, two kids made a pact to take care of each other. Scrappy, romantic, committed to create, and fueled by their mutual dreams and drives, they would prod and provide for one another during the hungry years. 'Just Kids' begins as a love story and ends as an elegy. It serves as a salute to New York City during the late sixties and seventies and to its rich and poor, its hustlers and hellions. It is a portrait of two young artists' ascent, a prelude to fame.

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3.5 (Bom)

eu achava que esse livro ia me ganhar com o contexto "cena artística sexo drogas e rock n roll em nyc nos anos 60" e, de fato, é um aspecto super interesante do livro, mas não se compara com a surpresa de conhecer a relação de patti e robert. a autora narra a história de forma que é possível sentir todo o amor e carinho que eles tinham um pelo outro mesmo em meio a tantas dificuldades. uma história muito emocionante, narrada de maneira muito sensível! com alguns pontos fracos, porém, em momentos que a autora narra situações pouco interessantes -- talvez pelo distanciamento e falta de conexão entre eu, leitora, e esses acontecimentos.