{"product_id":"year-of-the-monkey-1","title":"Year of the Monkey","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eNATIONAL BESTSELLER  \u003c\/b\u003e Riveting, elegant, humorous this 'picaresque voyage through Patti Smith s dreams and life, blending fiction and reality, conjured characters and actual ones  (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e) is \u003cb\u003ea moving and original work, a touchstone for our turbulent times. I\u003cb\u003ellustrated by Smith s signature Polaroids.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFollowing 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTaking 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eIncluding a new chapter, 'Epilogue of an Epilogue,' and ten new photos, \u003ci\u003eYear of the Monkey\u003c\/i\u003e  reminds us that despair and possibility often spring from the same source  (\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Buchserien.de","offers":[{"title":"Neuware","offer_id":53940280000850,"sku":"9781984898920","price":15.9,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0615\/7002\/3593\/files\/unnamed_afec8b0f-b800-4425-ba2f-1979ea0f2781.jpg?v=1783357123","url":"https:\/\/www.buchserien.de\/products\/year-of-the-monkey-1","provider":"Buchserien.de","version":"1.0","type":"link"}