{"product_id":"ano-del-mono-el","title":"The Year of the Monkey","description":"\u003cp style=\"text-align:center\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe new memoir by the author of National Book Award winner \u003ci\u003eJust Kids\u003c\/i\u003e: \"\u003ci\u003eYear of the Monkey\u003c\/i\u003e is the work that most resembles me.\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"text-align:center\"\u003e\"In its many pages, written as if by an angel (and not from hell), she uncovers all her adventures: those days of love and roses with thorns, and those of today, as a seventy-three-year-old woman who constantly travels the world in search of everything and nothing. The absolute.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLaura Revuelta, \u003ci\u003eABCultural\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eLooking at my reflection in the mercury-gray surface of the toaster, I noticed that I looked young and old at the same time.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIt's two in the morning on New Year's Eve 2015 when Patti Smith arrives at the Dream Motel, by Santa Cruz beach, after giving a concert at the legendary Fillmore venue in San Francisco. She has just turned seventy. On the first morning of the year, she goes for a walk and takes her first polaroid of the hotel sign, with which she has a lucid conversation, like a modern Alice in her own Wonderland. The chat inspires some verses, and she decides to return to her room, from whose terrace she listens to the waves and thinks about her friend Sandy Pearlman, the famous music producer, who has been in a coma for two days. He was the one who suggested she start a rock band in her youth. This is how a journey begins through the West Coast, the Arizona desert, Manhattan or Kentucky, but also through remembered or imagined places, of the external and internal world, in which Patti Smith allows us to wander alongside her as her most intimate companions.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis edition concludes with a moving epilogue written following the events of 2020.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCritics have said...\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[Patti Smith] defines her place in the world in relation to beloved people who are no longer there: [...] testimonies and memories, journeys and dreams of a woman who fights to seize the moment and stop the passage of time.\"\u003cbr\u003ePablo Gil, \u003ci\u003eEl Mundo\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"A book that rides between the real and the unreal, the dreamed and the lived. Smith draws in \u003ci\u003eYear of the Monkey\u003c\/i\u003e an oneiric journey in which the doors between these worlds open and close. [...] She distills everything into [...] delightful books that have made her a literary guru, between punk and poetry.\"\u003cbr\u003eJavier Ansorena, \u003ci\u003eABCultural\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"With her exquisite language, Smith creates her most intimate work, which fascinates and disturbs at the same time, like a Murakami who doesn't take herself so seriously, but achieves the same - and perhaps more authentic - mesmerizing effect.\"\u003cbr\u003eRaquel Bada, \u003ci\u003eZenda\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Patti Smith is an intergenerational goddess.\"\u003cbr\u003eMontserrat Domínguez\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Patti setting nights on fire with rock poetry.\"\u003cbr\u003eKen Tucker, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Punk singer, plastic artist, poet, early feminist, persistent activist, she closes (for now) her memoirs [...], swinging between real and imaginary characters, between future ideals and those distant 70s of which she is an icon. But Patti Smith didn't stay in fashion.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEl Mundo\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Discovering alongside her, and by walking through the moments of her history, how her creative process is, her influences, the verses that marked her, her vision of the world, or what matters most to her when she thinks, is a true privilege.\"\u003cbr\u003eBegoña Alonso, \u003ci\u003eElle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"A curious memoir in which thoughts, feverish dreams, moving memories flow. [...] A beautiful book.\"\u003cbr\u003eRosa Martí, \u003ci\u003eEsquire\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Patti Smith","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43536069525752,"sku":"9788426407740","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0626\/4897\/5608\/products\/ano-del-mono-el-smith-patti-804905.jpg?v=1696461546","url":"https:\/\/ellector.com.pa\/es\/products\/ano-del-mono-el","provider":"Librerías El Lector Panamá","version":"1.0","type":"link"}