# M Train - Hardcover

by **Patti Smith** (Author)

**National Best Seller**

From the National Book Award-winning author of _Just Kids_ an unforgettable odyssey of a legendary artist, told through the prism of the caf s and haunts she has worked in around the world. It is a book Patti Smith has described as "a roadmap to my life."

_M Train_ begins in the tiny Greenwich Village caf 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, illustrated with her signature Polaroids, _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 multiplatform artists at work today.

### Author Biography

**PATTI SMITH** is a writer, performer, and visual artist. She gained recognition in the 1970s for her revolutionary merging of poetry and rock. She has released twelve albums, including _Horses,_ which has been hailed as one of the top one hundred albums of all time by _Rolling Stone_.

Smith had her first exhibit of drawings at the Gotham Book Mart in 1973 and has been represented by the Robert Miller Gallery since 1978. Her books include _Just Kids,_ winner of the National Book Award in 2010, _Wītt_, _Babel_, _Woolgathering_, _The Coral Sea_, and _Auguries of Innocence._

In 2005, the French Ministry of Culture awarded Smith the title of Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres, the highest honor given to an artist by the French Republic. She was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2007.

Smith married the musician Fred Sonic Smith in Detroit in 1980. They had a son, Jackson, and a daughter, Jesse. Smith resides in New York City.

**Number of Pages:** 272

**Dimensions:** 0.88 x 8.25 x 5.69 IN

**Illustrated:** Yes

**Publication Date:** October 06, 2015

**Award:** ALA Notable Books (2016)

**Award:** Michigan Notable Books (2016)

## Details

- **Price:** 27.95 USD
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- **Type:** Books
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