Just Kids

Just KidsA prelude to fame, Just Kids recounts the friendship of two young artists, Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe, whose passion fuelled their lifelong pursuit of art. In 1967, a chance meeting between two young people led to a romance and a lifelong friendship that would carry each to international success never dreamed of. The backdrop is Brooklyn, Chelsea Hotel, Max's Kansas City, Scribner's Bookstore, Coney Island, Warhol's Factory and the whole city

there's uneasiness

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Perhaps 2017's Reputation didn't dominate the popular consciousness the way her 2014 pop breakthrough 1989 did

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and the black women she calls friends

The story concludes with the stark contrast between high-minded Stoicism and the collapse of values witnessed by Tacitus and Juvenal

Witty and inventive

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Primo Levi was among the greatest witnesses to twentieth-century atrocity

Rose is suffering from a strange illness and the doctors are mystified

loyalties are tested as they are pulled apart and thrown together in ways none of them imagined