JUST KIDS

Published by Ecco, 2010
Illustrated Edition | Softcover | 320 pages
Language: English
ISBN: 978-0060936228
Dimensions: 2.29 x 13.72 x 20.83 cm
Condition: Brand New

A love letter written in shadows. Just Kids is Patti Smith’s raw and luminous memoir of becoming an intimate document of her bond with photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, born not from fame, but from hunger, trust, and the chaos of creation.

Set against the backdrop of a crumbling, electric New York, where the Chelsea Hotel was still an altar and Max’s Kansas City hosted the devout, the book drifts through dim hallways, subway heat, and shared cigarettes. Two kids with empty pockets and holy ambitions, carving out their place in a city on the verge of art, sex, and collapse.

This isn’t a celebrity memoir. It’s a hymn to the underground, a chronicle of tenderness, survival, and the sacred pact to protect one another before the world knew their names. A document of youth spent building myth from nothing.

Just Kids reads like an elegy in real time a story of devotion, rebellion, and the birth of vision in a world that was falling apart beautifully.