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Rock ’n’ Roll Love Story

MARCH 5TH, 2010

Rock ’n’ Roll Love Story

You don't need a DeLorean to return to 1969 and rub shoulders with Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix. Just travel the pages of Patti Smith's Just Kids.

In the autobiographical book, the poet and “Godmother of Punk” speaks of her life as lover, muse and friend to photographer Robert Mapplethorpe. As a struggling artist in New York City during the Chelsea Hotel's heyday, Smith recounts her meetings with the rising stars of rock, writing and film now rooted in our cultural lexicon.

From Allen Ginsberg mistaking her for a boy to her affair with a young Sam Shepard, it's like vintage Page Six made into beautiful prose.

$25.60 at Book Warehouse, www.bookwarehouse.ca

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