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2015

Title:	M train / Patti Smith.
Author:	Smith, Patti.
Format:	Audio Book on CD, Audio Books, Nonmusical Sound Recording, Sound Recording
Edition:	Unabridged.
Publisher, Date:	[Westminster, MD] : Books on Tape ; New York : Random House Audio, [2015]
Description:	6 sound discs (6 hr., 30 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Summary:	M Train begins in the tiny Greenwich Village cafe where Smith goes every morning for black coffee, ruminates on the world as it is and the world as it was, and writes in her notebook. Through prose that shifts fluidly between dreams and reality, past and present, and across a landscape of creative aspirations and inspirations, we travel to Frida Kahlo's Casa Azul in Mexico; to a meeting of an Arctic explorer's society in Berlin; to a ramshackle seaside bungalow in New York's Far Rockaway that Smith acquires just before Hurricane Sandy hits; and to the graves of Genet, Plath, Rimbaud, and Mishima.
Subjects:	Smith, Patti. Women rock musicians -- United States -- Biography. Rock musicians -- United States -- Biography.
Genre:	Audiobooks. Autobiographies.
Notes:	Compact discs. Read by the author.
ISBN:	9781101923023 9781101923009
Publisher or Distributor Number:	PRHA5143
System Availability:	1
Current Holds:	0
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Author Biography

PATTI SMITH 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 Horses, which has been hailed as one of the top one hundred albums of all time by Rolling Stone.

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 Just Kids, winner of the National Book Award in 2010, Witt, Babel, Woolgathering, The Coral Sea, and Auguries of Innocence.

In 2005, the French Ministry of Culture awarded Smith the title of Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres, the highest honor given to an artist by the French Republic. She was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2007.

Smith married the musician Fred Sonic Smith in Detroit in 1980. They had a son, Jackson, and a daughter, Jesse. Smith resides in New York City. - (Random House, Inc.)

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