M Train: A Memoir

M Train: A Memoir

National BestsellerÂ
Featuring a new postscript including five new photos from Patti Smith

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

M TrainÂ begins in the tiny Greenwich Village cafÃ© 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, we travel to Frida Kahloâ€™s Casa Azul in Mexico; to the fertile moon terrain of Iceland; to a ramshackle seaside bungalow in New Yorkâ€™s Far Rockaway that Smith acquires just before Hurricane Sandy hits; to the West 4th Street subway station, filled with the sounds of the Velvet Underground after the death of Lou Reed; 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. Â
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Braiding despair with hope and consolation, illustrated with her signature Polaroids,Â M TrainÂ 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 Vintage
Manufacturer Vintage
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 44467780
Color Black
ReleaseDate 2016-08-23
UnitCount 1
Format Deckle Edge
EANs 9781101910160

Country	USA
Brand	Vintage
Manufacturer	Vintage
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	44467780
Color	Black
ReleaseDate	2016-08-23
UnitCount	1
Format	Deckle Edge
EANs	9781101910160

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