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M Train
- Narrated by: Patti Smith
- Length: 6 hrs and 32 mins
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Publisher's Summary
Bloomsbury presents M Train by Patti Smith, read by Patti Smith.
M Train begins in the tiny Greenwich Village café 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.
Woven throughout are reflections on the writer’s craft and on artistic creation. Here, too, are singular memories of Smith’s life in Michigan and the irremediable loss of her husband, Fred Sonic Smith. Braiding despair with hope and consolation, M Train is a meditation on travel, detective shows, literature and coffee. It is a powerful, deeply moving book by one of the most remarkable artists at work today.
Critic Reviews
"This book is so honest and pure as to count as a true rapture." (Joan Didion)
"Patti Smith has graced us with a poetic masterpiece, a rare and privileged invitation to unlatch a treasure chest never before breached." (Johnny Depp)
"A tender, harrowing, often hilarious portrait of young lovers forging their paths in an eccentric milieu of Beat poets, Warhol socialites, and transvestites, rock stars and artists." (Vogue)
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- Anonymous User
- 02-08-2021
Patti Smiths words and voice make me feel at home
I read this book first out of her collection. I was completely swept away. I love it with all of my heart. Her ability to capture states of being, feeling and dreaming have spoken so clearly to the way I experience the world. Hearing her read is mesmerising and comforting.
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- Anonymous User
- 27-06-2023
Warm and sincere
This beautiful collection of stories is so warming. Listening to Patti Smith narrate, there is something almost maternal about it. I just get wrapped in a hug of comfort and imagination, as I follow the wild and tender ride of what is, Patti’s life.
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- Wendy Sharpe
- 28-12-2020
wonderful
great book of little vignettes . beautifully written and read. sad funny .nsightul and poetic
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