{"product_id":"year-of-the-monkey-paperback","title":"Year of the Monkey - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eNATIONAL BESTSELLER -\u003c\/b\u003e Riveting, elegant, humorous--this \"picaresque voyage through Patti Smith's dreams and life, blending fiction and reality, conjured characters and actual ones\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e) is \u003cb\u003ea moving and original work, a touchstone for our turbulent times. I\u003cb\u003ellustrated by Smith's signature Polaroids.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFollowing a run of new year's concerts at San Francisco's legendary Fillmore, Patti Smith finds herself tramping the coast of Santa Cruz, about to embark on a year of solitary wandering. Unfettered by logic or time, she draws us into her private wonderland, in which she debates intellectual grifters and spars with the likes of a postmodern Cheshire Cat. Then, in February 2016, a surreal lunar year begins, bringing unexpected turns, heightened mischief, and inescapable sorrow. For Smith--inveterately curious, always exploring, always writing--this becomes a year of reckoning with the changes in life's gyre: with loss, aging, and a dramatic shift in the political landscape of America. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTaking us from California to the Arizona desert, from a Kentucky farm to the hospital room of a valued mentor, Smith melds the western landscape with her own dreamscape in a haunting, poetic blend of fact and fiction. As a stranger tells her, \"Anything is possible. After all, it's the Year of the Monkey.\" But as Smith heads toward a new decade in her own life, she offers this balm to the reader: her wisdom, wit, gimlet eye, and above all, a rugged hope for a better world. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eIncluding a new chapter, \"Epilogue of an Epilogue,\" and ten new photos, \u003ci\u003eYear of the Monkey\u003c\/i\u003e \"reminds us that despair and possibility often spring from the same source\" (\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51282972442847,"sku":"9781984898920","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/toZ0hIm2_x9781984898920_a042d1d4-2f07-42de-8a68-6ed1a264df58.webp?v=1787914328","url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/products\/year-of-the-monkey-paperback","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}