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"In lyric essays, a story, poems, and photographs, Smith illuminates the whirl of chance and choice that stokes a writer's imagination, recounting her fascination on the eve of a trip to Paris with Simone Weil and an evocative, accidentally discovered film about Stalin's mass deportation of Estonians. In France, a gravestone, a televised figure-skating competition, a meal, and a garden all converge in what becomes Devotion, [a] ... fairy tale about a young, displaced Estonian skater and a solitary dealer in rare objects and arms. This ... fable about creativity and obsession, possession and freedom is followed by a meditation on how a work of art is, for other artists, a call to action"--Booklist, 08/01/2017.
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Devotion, Patti Smith
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- 2017
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- Title
- Devotion
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Patti Smith
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Released
- 2017
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 93
- ISBN10
- 0300218621
- ISBN13
- 9780300218626
- Series
- Why I Write
- Tags
- Fiction, True Stories, Biographies, Poetry, Music Theme, Short Stories, Autobiographies & Memoirs, American Literature, Opinion Journalism & Essays, Celebrities, Writing, Fate
- First published
- 2017
- Original title
- Devotion
- Rating
- 3.85 out of 5
- Description
- "In lyric essays, a story, poems, and photographs, Smith illuminates the whirl of chance and choice that stokes a writer's imagination, recounting her fascination on the eve of a trip to Paris with Simone Weil and an evocative, accidentally discovered film about Stalin's mass deportation of Estonians. In France, a gravestone, a televised figure-skating competition, a meal, and a garden all converge in what becomes Devotion, [a] ... fairy tale about a young, displaced Estonian skater and a solitary dealer in rare objects and arms. This ... fable about creativity and obsession, possession and freedom is followed by a meditation on how a work of art is, for other artists, a call to action"--Booklist, 08/01/2017.