Patti Smiths Just kids på Samlaget våren 2012

Samlaget har kjøpt rettane til Patti Smiths bok Just kids. Boka kjem ut våren 2012 og Brit Bildøen skal omsetje boka.

I Just Kids, skriv den legendariske amerikanske artisten om forholdet til fotografen Robert Mapplethorpe og miljøet rundt Chelsea Hotel i slutten av sekstitalet og starten av syttitalet.

Smith vann National Book Award 2010 for boka.

“A spellbinding portrait of bohemian New York in the late 1960s and early ‘70s.”

— New York Times Book Review, Paperback Row

The most enchantingly evocative memoir of funky-but-chic New York in the late 1960s and early 1970s that any alumnus has yet committed to print.”

— Janet Maslin's top 10 books of 2010, New York Times

“Smith’s beautifully crafted love letter to her friend Robert Mapplethorpe functions as a memento mori of a relationship fueled by passion for art and writing. Her elegant eulogy lays bare the chaos and the creativity so embedded in that earlier time and in Mapplethorpe’s life and work.”

— Publishers Weekly, Top Ten Books of the Year

Karin Helgøy, informasjonssjef i Samlaget, 970 19 865, k.helgoy@samlaget.no
Samlaget, sentralbord: 22 70 78 00, www.samlaget.no