{"product_id":"bread-of-angels-from-the-national-book-award-winning-author-of-just-kids-9781408867747","title":"Bread of Angels: from the National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA radiant new memoir from beloved artist and writer Patti Smith, author of the National Book Award Winner \u003ci\u003eJust Kids.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Smith's eye for life's everyday transcendence rarely fails her' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e, 'Books of the Year'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003etriumph' \u003c\/b\u003eJoseph O'Connor, \u003ci\u003eIrish Times\u003c\/i\u003e, 'Books of the Year'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Quietly sacred, utterly beautiful'\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eService95\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Smith has already issued a handful of memoirs over the decades. \u003ci\u003eBread of Angels \u003c\/i\u003efeels like the big one' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA radiant new memoir from beloved artist and writer Patti Smith, author of the National Book Award Winner \u003ci\u003eJust Kids.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'God whispers through a crease in the wallpaper', writes Patti Smith in this moving account of her life. Her childhood imagination blossoms in the condemned housing complex where Smith grows up. Captain of her loyal sibling army, she vanquishes bullies, communes with the king of tortoises and searches for silver pennies. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWe follow Smith through her teen years and creative evolution: Arthur Rimbaud and Bob Dylan emerge as early influences, poetry collides with performance, leading to a rock and roll band and the recording of \u003ci\u003eHorses\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSmith leaves public life to marry her one true love, Fred Sonic Smith. On a canal in St Clair Shores, they build a home and start a family while each day she enters a room of her own at awn to write. When her reverie is shattered by a series of profound losses, Smith cares for her children in the aftermath; slowly, she begins to write again.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBoth a prequel and a sequel to \u003ci\u003eJust Kids\u003c\/i\u003e, this memoir is an ode to love, sacrifice and the artist's calling. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch4\u003eDetails\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003eISBN13: 9781408867747\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNumber of Pages: 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEdition: \u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublication Date: \u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublication City, Country: London, United Kingdom\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDimensions (cm): 19.4(H)x12.6(L)x2(W)233\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWeight (gm): 233\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cb\u003ePatti Smith\u003c\/b\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eHorses\u003c\/i\u003e, which has been hailed as one of the top one hundred albums of all time by\u003ci\u003e Rolling Stone\u003c\/i\u003e. Smith had her first exhibit of drawings at the Gotham Book Mart in 1973 and has been represented by the Robert Miller Gallery since 1978. Her books include \u003ci\u003eJust Kids\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the National Book Award in 2010, \u003ci\u003eWitt\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBabel\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWoolgathering\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Coral Sea\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAuguries of Innocence\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eM Train \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eYear of the Monkey\u003c\/i\u003e. In 2005, the French Ministry of Culture awarded Smith the prestigious title of Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres, the highest honour given to an artist by the French Republic. She was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2007. Smith resides in New York City.\u003ch4\u003eReviews\u003c\/h4\u003ePatti Smith's \u003ci\u003eBread of Angels\u003c\/i\u003e is \u003cb\u003ea triumph\u003c\/b\u003e -- Joseph O'Connor * Irish Times, Books of the Year *\u003cbr\u003eSmith's eye for life's \u003cb\u003eeveryday transcendence \u003c\/b\u003erarely fails her * Sunday Times, Books of the Year *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eQuietly sacred, utterly beautiful\u003c\/b\u003e * Service 95 *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReads more like a gospel\u003c\/b\u003e or a beat prose-poem than a conventional autobiography … Smith is acutely aware of being part of a dying breed, those who grew up outdoors, devoured books — and fell in love. At a time when love has never been so undervalued, when “boyfriends are embarrassing”, according to Vogue, when the union of two humans is mere content, it is lovely to read about love as sacred. \u003cb\u003eSmith, once again, shows us a better way to be ourselves\u003c\/b\u003e * Evening Standard *\u003cbr\u003eThe post-pandemic flood of artist memoirs continues\u003cb\u003e, but Patti Smith stands apart… you see the rebel artist being born in stop-motion…The narrative is radiant and intimate… A  transcendent\u003c\/b\u003e sequence that follows – like those moments in her songs when poetic incantation takes flight – displays her eccentric writing style not as a tic but a superpower…\u003cb\u003e She sang herself into being. She’s written – is still writing – her own story\u003c\/b\u003e * Guardian *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eJ\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eust Kids\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e is the memoir we’ve name-checked as a favourite read for the last 15 years, but just wait until you’ve sunk your teeth into Patti Smith’s latest \u003ci\u003eBread of Angels\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e From her postwar childhood to becoming a rock icon and poet, \u003cb\u003eshe reflects on art, love and resilience in her most intimate memoir to date \u003c\/b\u003e * Elle *\u003cbr\u003eHer greatest creation — the idea of what an artist should be — \u003cb\u003ewill live on for decades yet\u003c\/b\u003e * The Times *\u003cbr\u003eIn her \u003cb\u003elyrical, moving\u003c\/b\u003e memoir \u003ci\u003eBread of Angels\u003c\/i\u003e rock goddess Patti Smith tells the story of how she 'found her voice' – both the singing and writing kind * Independent *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA fantastic read\u003c\/b\u003e - a portrait of an artist who was at the heart of New York's counter-cultural scene in the 1970s…  a warm and thoughtful person, with an intense aesthetic sensibility and a - just as intense - love of family. Her losses have shaped her. \u003cb\u003eHer poetic artistry has shaped us all\u003c\/b\u003e * BBC *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePoetic and immersive\u003c\/b\u003e […] \u003ci\u003eBread of Angels\u003c\/i\u003e is both a prequel and a sequel to the bestselling \u003ci\u003eJust Kids\u003c\/i\u003e […] from ‘rock's renaissance woman' * i Paper *\u003cbr\u003eSmith's evocative memoir of life at the forefront of the bohemian music scene is \u003cb\u003eimbued with her customary lyricism and unwavering cool\u003c\/b\u003e * Waterstones *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEssential reading\u003c\/b\u003e ... \u003ci\u003eBread of Angels\u003c\/i\u003e is the latest in Patti Smith’s series of memoirs. This one focuses on her teenage years, where the beginnings of her creativity emerged in the poetry and lyrics that went on to form her unique style * The Gloss *\u003cbr\u003eSmith's life has a feeling of \u003cb\u003esomething from a lost world\u003c\/b\u003e ... In these pages, \"the hourglass overturns. Each grain a word that erupts into a thousand more\". It is a\u003cb\u003e deep pleasure\u003c\/b\u003e to spend time lost in this world of memories, ideas and poetry * Spectator *\u003cbr\u003eLike Burke, the musician and poet Patti Smith had a tough start in life, living in poverty and frequently confined to her bed from illnesses including tuberculosis, scarlet fever and pneumonia. Soulful and intimate, \u003ci\u003eBread of Angels\u003c\/i\u003e is Smith’s fourth volume of autobiography, and details her childhood, her decade away from music raising a family and her return to work following a series of devastating personal losses * Guardian, Books of the Year *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBread of Angels\u003c\/i\u003e is not [Patti's] first memoir... but it is a full-on autobiography, and the only one I know written by a rock star that recounts a three dimensional artist’s journey. This is the autobiography of a sensibility as well as an individual, its nearest equivalent being Dylan's illuminating, episodic and charmingly unreliable \u003ci\u003eChronicles, Volume 1 ... \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eThere is no one like her\u003c\/b\u003e, though many have tried to emulate her. Swimming ecstatically in the ‘sea of possibilities’, she created entirely new vistas of what women could do in rock and she unveils in\u003ci\u003e Bread of Angels\u003c\/i\u003e a literary voice as \u003cb\u003eunique and mesmeric\u003c\/b\u003e as the voice we heard on that first album * Literary Review *\u003cbr\u003eFans will devour it * Grazia *\u003cbr\u003eAn expansive cradle-to-late-life account of Smith’s experiences over eight decades. One of the marvels of \u003ci\u003eBread of Angels\u003c\/i\u003e is that... it is \u003cb\u003eremarkably fresh\u003c\/b\u003e, with long sections on subjects about which Smith has rarely written or even said much publicly ... \u003cb\u003eEnlightening\u003c\/b\u003e * New York Times Book Review *\u003cbr\u003eBread of Angels is Smith's most straightforwardly autobiographical book to date ... Her focus this time is her trajectory from a working-class childhood in Pennsylvania and south Jersey into her stage and recording career - which she put on hiatus during her marriage and reignited during her widowhood... \u003cb\u003eVeers between elegy and engagement\u003c\/b\u003e * NPR *\u003cbr\u003eSome of the National Book Award winner’s \u003cb\u003emost intimate recollections to date\u003c\/b\u003e - as sweeping in scope as they are pivotal to understanding the woman behind the accolades * Hollywood Reporter *\u003cbr\u003eBread of Angels augments the list of romantically crumbling places that Smith treasures. \u003cb\u003eRiveting\u003c\/b\u003e ... We love her because of her aura of \u003cb\u003erough authenticity\u003c\/b\u003e, her earnestness, her \u003cb\u003eseer’s way with words\u003c\/b\u003e and her occasional snarl * Washington Post *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMesmerizing\u003c\/b\u003e. \u003cb\u003eTranscendent\u003c\/b\u003e. Like Jeanette Walls’ classic, The Glass Castle, Smith’s saga begins with a hardscrabble childhood... and unfolds as a \u003cb\u003ebohemian fairy tale\u003c\/b\u003e ... I wish I could simply reprint those pages here - they\u003cb\u003e moved me deeply\u003c\/b\u003e * Los Angeles Times *\u003cbr\u003eIf Just Kids is about innocence and ambition, Bread of Angels - a sister to that book... deals with the more painful realities of experience. She \u003cb\u003efills in what the earlier memoir leaves in the background\u003c\/b\u003e: her childhood, her marriage, her fame ... Near the end of our conversation, Smith brought up her desire, invoked early in her memoir, to write \u003cb\u003esomething in which everyone would find a piece of themselves\u003c\/b\u003e * The Atlantic *\u003cbr\u003eAn\u003cb\u003e intimate journey\u003c\/b\u003e through Smith’s life * People *\u003cbr\u003eSmith has already issued a handful of memoirs over the decades. \u003ci\u003eBread of Angels \u003c\/i\u003efeels like the big one … \u003cb\u003eHer language feels both acrobatic and intimate\u003c\/b\u003e in the book’s closing chapters (especially after Smith discovers a tangle in her genealogy), until the reader is asked to imagine “the blood of the mind forming these words at this moment”. That’s when the blood in my brain inverted my understanding of her: she isn’t a rock star writing memoirs. \u003cb\u003eShe’s a memoirist who happens to have been a rock star\u003c\/b\u003e. 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