It is a memoir that was written by
someone who relates the life they experienced at first hand during their
normal life which was back in the 1960s and that narrator is yours
truly Patti Smith who authored this book quite intimately their lives
with her better half Robert Mapplethorpe. These two childhood friends
who hails from the downtown New York divulges their fond memories and
made a concord to keep each other afloat until they found their voices
or the world was ready to hear them. In their own rights Patti Smith
was a poet and performer whereas Robert was a photographer and above
all before they took the world the storm they were Lovers first and then
friends as Mapplethorpe discovered he was gay, they divided their dimes
between art supplies and Coney Island hot dogs. Mapplethorpe was
quicker to find his profession, with a Polaroid and then a Hasselblad,
but Smith was the first to fame, transformed, to her friend's delight,
from a poet into a rock star.
All
of the bigger things started in 1969, the pair set up camp at the Hotel
Chelsea and soon entered a community of the famous and infamous—the
influential artists of the day and the colorful fringe. It was a time
of heightened awareness, when the worlds of poetry, rock and roll, art,
and sexual politics were colliding and exploding. In this milieu, two
kids made a pact to take care of each other. Scrappy, romantic,
committed to create, and fueled by their mutual dreams and drives, they
would prod and provide for one another during the hungry years.
All in all the book can quite effectively capture your attention as it
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