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A wildly ambitious novel, a beyond-brave memoir, and an expansive modern history: We loved them from the first page, and we’d like to re-introduce them to the Aesthetes.
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Just Kids

By Patti Smith

Publisher: Ecco
Pages: 304

Winner of the 2010 National Book Award for Fiction

The singer-icon's memoir about coming of age with soul mate Robert Mapplethorpe. Funny, fascinating, oddly tender.

— Kate Miller

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