M Train
by Smith, Patti
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Fine Condition
- ISBN 10
- 1408867699
- ISBN 13
- 9781408867693
- Seller
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King River, Western Australia, Australia
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About This Item
Bloomsbury, London, 2015. First Edition. Softcover (with flaps). Fine Condition. Third Impression . Size: Small Octavo. 257 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. No foxing in this copy. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. A fine unread copy.. The book is available and ready to ship. M Train begins in the tiny Greenwich Village café 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, we travel to Frida Kahlo's Casa Azul in Mexico; to the fertile moon terrain of Iceland; to a ramshackle seaside bungalow in New York's Far Rockaway that Smith acquires just before Hurricane Sandy hits; to the West 4th Street subway station, filled with the sounds of the Velvet Underground after the death of Lou Reed; 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. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Biography & Autobiography; United States; Modern; ISBN: . ISBN/EAN: 9781408867693. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 9698. . 9781408867693
Synopsis
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee presents reflections on her inner life from the unique perspectives of the cafés and cultural haunts she has visited and worked in around the world.
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- Bookseller
- Great Southern Books (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 9698
- Title
- M Train
- Author
- Smith, Patti
- Format/Binding
- Softcover (with flaps)
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine Condition
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 1408867699
- ISBN 13
- 9781408867693
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2015
- Keywords
- BZDB137 Rock & Pop Music, Individual Composers & Musicians, Specific Bands & Groups, Individual Composers & Musicians, Specific Bands & Groups, Biography: General, Autobiography: Arts & Entertainment, Memoirs Biography & Autob
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