{"product_id":"patti-smith-year-of-the-monkey-9781984898920","title":"Year of the Monkey","description":"Riveting, elegant, humorous-and illustrated by Smith's signature Polaroids-New York Times bestseller Year of the Monkey is a moving and original work, a touchstone for our turbulent times. Following a run of new year's concerts at San Francisco's legendary Fillmore, Patti Smith finds herself tramping the coast of Santa Cruz, about to embark on a year of solitary wandering. Unfettered by logic or time, she draws us into her private wonderland, in which she debates intellectual grifters and spars with the likes of a postmodern Cheshire Cat. Then, in February 2016, a surreal lunar year begins, bringing unexpected turns, heightened mischief, and inescapable sorrow. For Smith-inveterately curious, always exploring, always writing-this becomes a year of reckoning with the changes in life's gyre: with loss, aging, and a dramatic shift in the political landscape of America. Taking us from California to the Arizona desert, from a Kentucky farm to the hospital room of a valued mentor, Smith melds the western landscape with her own dreamscape in a haunting, poetic blend of fact and fiction. As a stranger tells her, \"Anything is possible. After all, it's the Year of the Monkey.\" But as Smith heads toward a new decade in her own life, she offers this balm to the reader: her wisdom, wit, gimlet eye, and above all, a rugged hope for a better world. Named one of NPR's Best Books of the Year-now including a new chapter, \"Epilogue of an Epilogue,\" and ten new photos-Year of the Monkey \"reminds us that despair and possibility often spring from the same source\" (Los Angeles Times).","brand":"Random House LLC US","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53377698201942,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0925\/5829\/5382\/files\/product_image_9781984898920_1_17b92c1d-93f0-459c-8a5e-96ef9bb31b56.jpg?v=1778652178","url":"https:\/\/www.momoxbooks.com\/products\/patti-smith-year-of-the-monkey-9781984898920","provider":"momoxbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}