Patti Smith, "M Train" Book (2015)

Details: Used and gently loved paperbook remainder book. "M Train," by Patti Smith on Vintage Books (2015). "This book is brilliant. A poetic, energetic search for the secret links between life and art--and coffee."--Henning Mankell Description: "From the National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids: a “sublime collection of true stories … and wild imaginings that take us to the very heart of who Patti Smith is” (Vanity Fair), told through the cafés and haunts she has worked in around the world. Patti Smith calls this bestselling work “a roadmap to my life.” M Train begins in the tiny Greenwich Village café where Smith goes every morning for black coffee, ruminates on the world as it is and the world as it was, and writes in her notebook. Through prose that shifts fluidly between dreams and reality, past and present, we travel to Frida Kahlo’s Casa Azul in Mexico; to the fertile moon terrain of Iceland; to a ramshackle seaside bungalow in New York’s Far Rockaway that Smith acquir