M TRAIN.

UK,12mo French flaps,p/back 1st edn. [Complete number line 2 4 6 8 10 9 7 5 3 1.Originally and first published UK,HB+dw/dj,(London), Bloomsbury,2015. This first p/back edn by same publisher,2016 with new material.French flaps are a design in which the cover includes an extra folded piece on each side inside, which gives the publisher more room to detail the book,and also gives a built-in bookmark to fold into place.] NMINT. Wrapped+protected from day of issue/purchase,virtually as new,so no owner inscrptn and no price removal from cover.Bright,crisp,clean, sharp-cornered,card French flaps covers,matt black background with subject's glossy,b/w portrait photograph positioned centrally to front cover with white letters,white letters to spine/backstrip which has NO reading creases to same,b/w photographic illustrated rear cover with critics' white-lettered reviews and indication of NEW material within.Top+ fore-edges bright and clean without blemish; contents bright,tight,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips - unread apart from my own collaion.UK,12mo French flaps, p/back 1st edn,5-275pp [paginated] includes 19 sections+Postscript,profuse variety of contemporary, personal, biographical,location and scenic b/w photographs interspersed throughout the text and the book; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,a dedication,contents list/table,title separator page,each section with contemporary b/w photograph at start and other b/w photographs within each,and to the rear an illustrations list/table and as last page - a note about the author.
From the National Book Award–winning author of 'Just Kids': an unforgettable odyssey of a legendary artist,told through the prism of the cafés and haunts she has worked in around the world.It is a book Patti Smith has described as "a roadmap to my life."
'M Train' begins in the tiny Greenwich Village café 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 dreams and reality,past and present, and across a landscape of creative aspirations and inspirations,we travel to Frida Kahlo's Casa Azul in Mexico; to a meeting of an Arctic explorer's society in Berlin; to a ramshackle seaside bungalow in New York's Far Rockaway that Smith acquires just before Hurricane Sandy hits; and to the graves of Genet, Plath, Rimbaud and Mishima.
Woven throughout are reflections on the writer's craft and on artistic creation.Here,too,are singular memories of Smith's life in Michigan and the irremediable loss of her husband,Fred Sonic Smith.
Braiding despair with hope and consolation,illustrated with her signature Polaroids,'M Train' is a meditation on travel,detective shows,literature,and coffee.It is a powerful,deeply moving book by one of the most remarkable multiplatform artists at work today. About the author: Patti Smith is a writer,performer and visual artist. She gained recognition in the 1970s for her revolutionary merging of poetry and rock.She has released twelve albums,including 'Horses', which has been hailed as one of the top one hundred albums of all time by Rolling Stone magazine.
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