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A Book of Days by Patti Smith
42.99 NZD
Category: Photography
A deeply moving and brilliantly idiosyncratic visual book of days by the National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids and M Train, featuring more than 365 images and reflections that chart Smith's singular aesthetic - inspired by her wildly popular Instagram. In 2018, without any plan or agenda for ...Show more
Devotion by Patti Smith
33.99 NZD
Category: Mind/Body/Spirit | Series: Why I Write Ser. | Reading Level: very good
The national bestseller from the renowned artist and author Patti Smith, exploring the nature of creative invention A work of creative brilliance may seem like magic--its source a mystery, its impact unexpectedly stirring. How does an artist accomplish such an achievement, connecting deeply with an audi ...Show more
Just Kids by Patti Smith
28.99 NZD
Category: Staff Picks- Read our reviews | Reading Level: very good
WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD In Just Kids, Patti Smith's first book of prose, the legendary American artist offers a never-before-seen glimpse of her remarkable relationship with photographer Robert Mapplethorpe in the epochal days of New York City and the Chelsea Hotel in the late sixties and seve ...Show more
Just Kids illustrated by Patti Smith
64.99 NZD
Category: Music
WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD It was the summer Coltrane died, the summer of love and riots, and the summer when a chance encounter in Brooklyn led two young people on a path of art, devotion, and initiation. Patti Smith would evolve as a poet and performer, and Robert Mapplethorpe would direct his ...Show more
M Train by Patti Smith
24.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
REVISED EDITION WITH FIVE THOUSAND WORDS BONUS MATERIAL AND NEW PHOTOGRAPHS. M Train begins in the tiny Greenwich Village cafe 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 ...Show more
More Lifeways: FInding Support and Inspiration in Family Life by Edited by Patti Smith & Signe Eklund Schaefer
39.95 NZD
44.95 (11% off)
Category: Health
This volume invites the sharing of experiences of parenting and family paths. The contributors offer readers space for encouragement and support. There are no easy answers to the challenges of parenting. However, learning from each others' experiences can help on the many journeys different families tre ...Show more
The Thief's Journal by Jean Genet; Jean-Paul Sartre (Foreword by); Patti Smith (Introduction by)
35.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction
The Thief's Journal is perhaps Jean Genet's most authentically autobiographical novel; an account of his impoverished travels across 1930s Europe. The narrator is guilty of vagrancy, petty theft and prostitution, but his writing transforms such degradations into an inverted moral code, where criminality ...Show more
William Blake: Poems (Vintage Classics) by William Blake; Patti Smith (Introduction by)
19.99 NZD
28.99 (31% off)
Category: Poetry | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
"William Blake is one of Britain s most fascinating writers, who, as well as being a groundbreaking poet, is also well known as a painter, engraver, radical and mystic. Although Blake was dismissed as an eccentric by his contemporaries, his powerful and richly symbolic poetry has been a fertile source o ...Show more
Year of the Monkey by Patti Smith
32.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
From the National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids and M Train, a profound, beautifully realized memoir in which dreams and reality are vividly woven into a tapestry of one transformative year. Following a run of New Year's concerts at San Francisco's legendary Fillmore, Patti Smith finds herself ...Show more
Year of the Monkey: The New York Times bestseller by Patti Smith
24.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
'Magical' GUARDIAN'A gripping tale of the search for meaning in times of turbulence - expressed with Smith's signature poetic flair' VOGUE'Extraordinary ... A tense, teasing mix of reality and dream' Sunday Times'A melancholy mood and poetic language distinguish Smith's third memoir' BBC'Her willingness ...Show more
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