M Train: A Memoir

M Train: A Memoir

National Best SellerÂ

From the National Book Awardâ€“winning author of Just Kids: an unforgettable odyssey of a legendary artist, told through the prism of 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 Train 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, 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
Manufacturer Vintage
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2015-10-06
UnitCount 1
Format Kindle eBook
EANs 9781101875117

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Vintage
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2015-10-06
UnitCount	1
Format	Kindle eBook
EANs	9781101875117

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