M Train

M Train

National Best SellerÂ

From the National Book Awardâ‚¬â€œwinning author of Just Kids: an unforgettable odyssey of a legendary artist, told through the prism of the cafÂ©s and haunts she has worked in around the world. It is a book Patti Smith has described as â‚¬Å“a roadmap to my life.â‚¬Â

M Train begins in the tiny Greenwich Village cafÂ© where Smith goes every morning for black coffee, ruminates on the world as it is and the world as it was, and writes in her notebook. Through prose that shifts fluidly between dreams and reality, past and present, and across a landscape of creative aspirations and inspirations, we travel to Frida Kahloâ‚¬s Casa Azul in Mexico; to a meeting of an Arctic explorerâ‚¬s society in Berlin; to a ramshackle seaside bungalow in New Yorkâ‚¬s Far Rockaway that Smith acquires just before Hurricane Sandy hits; and to the graves of Genet, Plath, Rimbaud, and Mishima.

Woven throughout are reflections on the writerâ‚¬s craft and on artistic creation. Here, too, are singular memories of Smithâ‚¬s life in Michigan and the irremediable loss of her husband, Fred Sonic Smith.

Braiding despair with hope and consolation, illustrated with her signature Polaroids, M Train is a meditation on travel, detective shows, literature, and coffee. It is a powerful, deeply moving book by one of the most remarkable multiplatform artists at work today.
Country USA
Brand Knopf
Manufacturer Knopf
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber 42198335
Model 1101875100
Color Black
ReleaseDate 2015-10-06
UnitCount 1
Format Deckle Edge
EANs 9781101875100

Country	USA
Brand	Knopf
Manufacturer	Knopf
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	42198335
Model	1101875100
Color	Black
ReleaseDate	2015-10-06
UnitCount	1
Format	Deckle Edge
EANs	9781101875100

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