Year of the Monkey

Titel

Year of the Monkey

Urheber

Patti Smith

Veröffentlichungsdatum

2020

Beschreibung

Patti Smith finds herself tramping the coast of Santa Cruz, about to embark on a year of solitary wandering. Unfettered by logic or time, she draws us into her private wonderland, with no design yet heeding signs, including a talking sign that looms above her, prodding and sparring like the Cheshire Cat. In February, a surreal lunar year begins, bringing with it unexpected turns, heightened mischief, and inescapable sorrow. In a stranger's words, "Anything is possible: after all, it's the year of the monkey." For Patti Smith - inveterately curious, always exploring, tracking thoughts, writing the year evolves as one of reckoning with the changes in life's gyre: with loss, aging, and a dramatic shift in the political landscape of America. Smith melds the Western landscape with her own dreamscape. Taking us from Southern California to the Arizona desert; to a Kentucky farm as the amanuensis of a friend in crisis; to the hospital room of a valued mentor; and by turns to remembered and imagined places - this haunting memoir blends fact and fiction with poetic mastery. The unexpected happens; grief and disillusionment. But as Patti Smith heads toward a new decade in her own life, she offers this balm to the reader: her wisdom, wit, gimlet eye, and above all, a rugged hope of a better world. Riveting, elegant, often humorous, illustrated by Smith's signature Polaroids, Year of the Monkey is a moving and original work, a touchstone for our turbulent times.

Format

Memoir (Grief)

Herausgeber

Bloomsbury UK

Quelle

https://www.exlibris.ch/de/buecher-buch/english-books/patti-smith/year-of-the-monkey/id/9781526614766/?msclkid=a72def38cc9c156d1d558ba9b3d5577b&utm_source=bing&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=MS%20Shopping%20Rang%2020-30-40%20(sh-ch-de)&utm_term=4574724303897212&utm_content=20-30-40&gclid=a72def38cc9c156d1d558ba9b3d5577b&gclsrc=3p.ds