{"product_id":"patti-smith-year-of-the-monkey-used-book","title":"Patti Smith | Year of the Monkey used book","description":"\u003cp\u003eUsed Copy\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eFrom the National Book Award-winning author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eJust Kids\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eM Train\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e, a profound, beautifully realized memoir in which dreams and reality are vividly woven into a tapestry of one transformative year.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFollowing a run of New Year's concerts at San Francisco's legendary Fillmore, 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 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSmith melds the western landscape with her own dreamscape. Taking us from 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 set in. But as 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 for a better world. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRiveting, elegant, often humorous, illustrated by Smith's signature Polaroids, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eYear of the Monkey\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a moving and original work, a touchstone for our turbulent times.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kirks' Grocery","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57603044180132,"sku":null,"price":8.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0459\/9935\/8116\/files\/library-8DBF96B1-BB99-4C20-87E4-1AE0F969D659-L0-001.jpg?v=1793390935","url":"https:\/\/kirks-grocery.myshopify.com\/products\/patti-smith-year-of-the-monkey-used-book","provider":"Kirks' Grocery","version":"1.0","type":"link"}