In Just Kids, Patti Smith's first book of prose, the legendary
American artist offers a never-before-seen glimpse of her remarkable
relationship with photographer Robert Mapplethorpe in the epochal days
of New York City and the Chelsea Hotel in the late sixties and
seventies. An honest and moving story of youth and friendship, Smith
brings the same unique, lyrical quality to Just Kids as she has to the
rest of her formidable body of work--from her influential 1975 album
Horses to her visual art and poetry.