See rare photographs, drawings in illustrated version of Patti Smith’s ‘Just Kids’
Brooklyn BookBeat
First published in 2010, “Just Kids” by Patti Smith became an instant classic. The iconic book, winner of the National Book Award and number four on the New York Times Bestseller List, is the beloved tale of Smith’s youthful odyssey in New York City when, in the summer of 1969, a chance meeting would change the course of her life. It was the summer she met Robert Mapplethorpe.
“Just Kids Illustrated Edition,” which was released on Oct. 23, includes the classic memoir, a new introduction by Smith and more than 100 photographs by photographers such as Mapplethorpe, Judy Linn, Kate Simon and Lynn Davis.
Smith’s exquisite prose is generously illustrated in this full-color edition of her classic coming-of-age memoir. New York locations vividly come to life whereas young artists, Smith and Mapplethorpe met and fell in love: a first apartment in Brooklyn, Times Square with John and Yoko’s iconic billboard, Max’s Kansas City or the gritty fire escape of the Hotel Chelsea.