--- product_id: 57544631 title: "Just Kids: the National Book Award-winning memoir (Bloomsbury Paperbacks)" brand: "patti smith" price: "VT7758" currency: VUV in_stock: null reviews_count: 10 url: https://www.desertcart.vu/products/57544631-just-kids-the-national-book-award-winning-memoir-bloomsbury-paperbacks store_origin: VU region: Vanuatu --- # Just Kids: the National Book Award-winning memoir (Bloomsbury Paperbacks) **Brand:** patti smith **Price:** VT7758 **Availability:** ❌ Out of Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Just Kids: the National Book Award-winning memoir (Bloomsbury Paperbacks) by patti smith - **How much does it cost?** VT7758 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Currently out of stock - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.vu](https://www.desertcart.vu/products/57544631-just-kids-the-national-book-award-winning-memoir-bloomsbury-paperbacks) ## Best For - patti smith enthusiasts ## Why This Product - Trusted patti smith brand quality - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Full description not available ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | ASIN | 0747568766 | | Best Sellers Rank | #3,683,384 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) | | Customer Reviews | 4.5 4.5 out of 5 stars (11,731) | | Dimensions | 5.04 x 0.87 x 7.72 inches | | Edition | Later printing | | ISBN-10 | 9780747568766 | | ISBN-13 | 978-0747568766 | | Item Weight | 9.1 ounces | | Language | English | | Print length | 320 pages | | Publication date | January 1, 2010 | | Publisher | Ecco | ## Images ![Just Kids: the National Book Award-winning memoir (Bloomsbury Paperbacks) - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61SZH1+PalL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars Coney Island babies... *by R***N on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 22 April 2011* Really beautiful and touching book, which greatly exceeded my expectations.This isn't a book about Patti Smith, or her music, nor even about Robert Mapplethorpe, though obviously there's plenty about them and their work between these covers. It's a book about their relationship as artists and lovers as an entity in its own right, and as such it's one of the finest love stories you will ever read - a mostly platonic story for sure, but no less powerful for all that. You put the book down feeling that he was surely her 'other half', and she his - that they made one another whole, as people as well as artists.The writing is never sentimental, even when it's dealing with Robert's untimely end - it's crisp and hard-edged, but never prosaic, and the more powerful for it. Her recollections of tough times in New York around the turn of the 70s and growing up in places like the Chelsea Hotel and CBGBs before they became tourist destinations are captured with an artist's clear eye and are a valuable addition in themselves to other memoirs of those times. But it's the story of Robert and Patti that rightly dominates. A very moving, life-affirming memoir, and highly recommended to anyone with even a passing interest in their work and those times. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars Great book *by J***L on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 21 August 2024* Brand new book, which arrived quickly and was well packaged. Book even better than expected. Thank you. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.0 out of 5 stars "I preferred an artist who transformed his time, not mirrored it." *by J***K on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 3 April 2011* I was a great fan of Patti Smith in my younger days but as she has grown older she has become an example of the kind of New Age weirdness and political correctness that make my teeth grind.*So it was with some trepidation that I picked her memoirs of her time with Robert Mapplethorpe, expecting peace and love-type psychobabble.Instead, it was a well-written, disciplined account of her relationship with him and early life and mercifully free from her political opinions.She also resisted the temptation to get over-emotional about some episodes in her life, such as giving away her baby daughter when she was 19, and her description of how she and Mapplethorpe went their separate ways is refreshingly sober.Her obsession with French badboy poet Rimbaud becomes a bit tedious especially as she does not explain why he was so important to her.Nor does she give any good reason why she and Mapplethorpe chose to live in a cramped room in the Chelsea Hotel next to the room where Dylan Thomas died.The quality slips at times and name dropping abounds - Dylan (Bob, not the Welsh one), William Burroughs, Salvador Dali, Janis Joplin, Lou Reed and Alan Ginzburg** - but overall the book is low key, factual and fairly convincing.There are also incisive barbs such as her comment comparing Mapplethorpe with Andy Warhol: "I preferred an artist who transformed his time, not mirrored it."It's difficult to believe she was as innocent and naïve as she makes out.Patti Smith obviously regards herself as a "writer, performer and visual artist". However, as far as I am concerned she is a rock singer and will be judged as such.I`ll never forget the impact her first album had on me when I was a student in Edinburgh in the early/mid 1970s and life was founded on rock and roll and first love.* Check out her site if you don't believe me. ** Who thought she was a boy the first time he met her. ## Frequently Bought Together - (smith).just kids - The Bell Jar (Modern Classics) - Milk Teeth --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.vu/products/57544631-just-kids-the-national-book-award-winning-memoir-bloomsbury-paperbacks](https://www.desertcart.vu/products/57544631-just-kids-the-national-book-award-winning-memoir-bloomsbury-paperbacks) --- *Product available on Desertcart Vanuatu* *Store origin: VU* *Last updated: 2026-05-10*