Just Kids is the story of the everlasting friendship and love between two artists, singer-songwriter, poet and visual artist Patti Smith and photographer Robert Mapplethorpe. Beautifully written by Patti herself, and brimming with creativity, it starts as a love story and ends as an elegy for her soul mate Robert Mapplethorpe and a lost New York City.
Written in a biographical style, Patti gives readers an intimate and unveiled look into her colourful life. We watch Patti and Robert grow up and find success in the harsh and critical world of art and music. And we are swept along on a journey of New York City in the height of the sixties where Patti and Robert meet and make friends with some of the most influential and legendary people of our time.
What’s so refreshing about this story is Patti’s tell-all style: she is not afraid to hide the bad and the ugly, reminding us that everyone has to start somewhere, and success is never easy, nor is it certain.
