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 Riveting, elegant, and humorous, 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"—Year of the Monkey “reminds us that despair and possibility often spring from the same source” (Los Angeles Times). Art et littérature Auteurs Divertissement et célébrités Célébrité Fiction Spirituel
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I love Patti's writing. This is the first time I've heard an audio from her, having had paper copies of her other books. I just loved her narration.. that voice! It really made it for me. You rule, Patti.

Great, as usual

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Listening to this audiobook read by Patti is, for the true Smith fan, the most sublime and richly rewarding listen. Her poetic voice, surrealistic associations, threads of Dreamtime, monkey business, rabbit wisdom, and the souls of dear old friends weave throughout this memoir in a magical, hyper-reality state of motion, life as journey, journey as life. As a winter, Patti gets better and better. A true gem, a love song, a prophetic tribute to lasting truths in an era of misinformation. A literary triumph.

Patti Smith the literary muse

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I struggled to finish the book as her voice was monotone and I would fall asleep.

The year of the Monkey

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Couldn’t figure it out - some groovy tagalong chic behind a 70s boy band. Or a druggie jail bird (like her voice sounds?) Sort of known name, but I’m sure not spending another minute trying to find out. The one star review is there just to prove that I tried

Just wondering what she was all about

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