Bread of Angels

from the National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids

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<p><b>'Smith's eye for life's everyday transcendence rarely fails her' </b><i>Sunday Times</i>, 'Books of the Year'<br><b>'A</b> <b>triumph' </b>Joseph O'Connor, <i>Irish Times</i>, 'Books of the Year'<br><b>'Quietly sacred, utterly beautiful'</b> <i>Service95</i><br><b>'Smith has already issued a handful of memoirs over the decades. <i>Bread of Angels </i>feels like the big one' </b><i>TLS</i><br><b><br>A radiant new memoir from beloved artist and writer Patti Smith, author of the National Book Award Winner <i>Just Kids.</i></b><br><i><br>God whispers through a crease in the wallpaper</i>, writes Patti Smith in this indelible account of her life as an artist. A post-Second World War childhood unfolds in a condemned housing complex described in Dickensian detail: consumptive children, vanishing neighbours, an infested rat house, and a beguiling book of Irish fairytales. We enter the child's world of the imagination where Smith, the captain of her loyal and beloved sibling army, vanquishes bullies, communes with the king of tortoises and searches for sacred silver pennies.<br><br>The most intimate of Smith's memoirs, <i>Bread of Angels</i> takes us through her teenage years where the first glimmers of art and romance take hold. Arthur Rimbaud and Bob Dylan emerge as creative heroes and role models as Patti starts to write poetry, then lyrics, merging both into the iconic songs and recordings such as <i>Horses</i> and<i> Easter</i>, 'Dancing Barefoot' and 'Because the Night'.<br><br>She leaves it all behind to marry her one true love, Fred Sonic Smith, with whom she creates a life of devotion and adventure on a canal in St. Clair Shores, Michigan with ancient willows and fulsome pear trees. She builds a room of her own, furnished with a pillow of Moroccan silk, a Persian cup, inkwell and fountain pen. The couple spend nights in their landlocked Chris-Craft studying nautical maps and charting new adventures as they start their family.<br><br>As Smith suffers profound l

Artikeldetails

EAN

9781408867730

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Taschenbuch

Maße

224 x 152 x 25 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2025

Verlag / Hersteller

Bloomsbury Publishing plc