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8Un nuevo libro de memorias de la autora de ramos unos ni os, ganadora del National Book Award: «El a o del Mono es la obra que m s se parece a m .
«Milagroso. ...] Una obra maestra. ...] Smith resplandece; se mueve por el mundo como un viajero en el tiempo, un esp a, un vagabundo en la tierra de la literatura y la vida. Es un espejo humano. - Maria Popova, Brain Pickings Al contemplar mi imagen en la superficie gris mercurio de la tostadora, me fij en que parec a joven y vieja al mismo tiempo.
Son las dos de la madrugada de la Nochevieja de 2015 cuando Patti Smith llega al Dream Motel, junto a la playa de Santa Cruz, tras dar un concierto en la legendaria sala Fillmore de San Francisco. Acaba de cumplir setenta a os. En la primera ma ana del a o sale a dar un paseo y toma su primera polaroid del r tulo del hotel, con el que mantiene una l cida conversaci n, como una Alicia moderna en su particular Pa s de las Maravillas. La charla le inspira unos versos y decide volver a su habitaci n, desde cuya terraza escucha las olas y piensa en su amigo Sandy Pearlman, el famoso productor musical, que lleva dos d as en coma. l fue la persona que le sugiri en su juventud que montara una banda de rock. As comienza un viaje por lugares como la Costa Oeste, el desierto de Arizona, Manhattan o Kentucky, pero tambi n por parajes recordados o imaginados, del mundo exterior y del interior, en el que Patti Smith nos permite deambular a su lado como sus acompa antes m s ntimos. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION New York Times Best Seller 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 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. Smith 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.
«Milagroso. ...] Una obra maestra. ...] Smith resplandece; se mueve por el mundo como un viajero en el tiempo, un esp a, un vagabundo en la tierra de la literatura y la vida. Es un espejo humano. - Maria Popova, Brain Pickings Al contemplar mi imagen en la superficie gris mercurio de la tostadora, me fij en que parec a joven y vieja al mismo tiempo.
Son las dos de la madrugada de la Nochevieja de 2015 cuando Patti Smith llega al Dream Motel, junto a la playa de Santa Cruz, tras dar un concierto en la legendaria sala Fillmore de San Francisco. Acaba de cumplir setenta a os. En la primera ma ana del a o sale a dar un paseo y toma su primera polaroid del r tulo del hotel, con el que mantiene una l cida conversaci n, como una Alicia moderna en su particular Pa s de las Maravillas. La charla le inspira unos versos y decide volver a su habitaci n, desde cuya terraza escucha las olas y piensa en su amigo Sandy Pearlman, el famoso productor musical, que lleva dos d as en coma. l fue la persona que le sugiri en su juventud que montara una banda de rock. As comienza un viaje por lugares como la Costa Oeste, el desierto de Arizona, Manhattan o Kentucky, pero tambi n por parajes recordados o imaginados, del mundo exterior y del interior, en el que Patti Smith nos permite deambular a su lado como sus acompa antes m s ntimos. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION New York Times Best Seller 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 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. Smith 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.
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