Pan de Ángeles / Bread of Angels

«No solo es una gran artista, es una maga, es decir, alguien en contacto con otros niveles de realidad . --William S. Burroughs

«Patti Smith es una diosa intergeneracional . --Montserrat Dom璯guez

«Dios susurra a trav廥 de una arruga en el papel pintado , escribe Patti Smith en estas extraordinarias memorias en las que, desde su primer recuerdo hasta sus actuales inquietudes, teje un inolvidable relato de una vida consagrada a la belleza, la mica, la poes燰 y el amor.

Nacida en el seno de una familia de clase trabajadora poco despu廥 de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, su infancia dickensiana transcurre entre desahucios y enfermedades, alternados con juegos y libros de cuentos que le abrir嫕 las puertas de un mundo lleno de magia y sue隳s de libertad. Pronto descubre en Arthur Rimbaud y Bob Dylan los modelos para sus propios poemas y canciones, y en Nueva York, un nuevo territorio art疄tico donde formar una banda y componer discos tan legendarios como Horses y Because the Night. Amor y familia, p廨dida y reconstrucci鏮 y, siempre, la escritura ser嫕 las constantes de una trayectoria vital impulsada por la libertad art疄tica y el poder de la imaginaci鏮 para transformar lo cotidiano en sagrado, lo com en m墔ico y el dolor en esperanza.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

The radiant definitive memoirs of one of the greatest icons of our time, winner of the National Book Award: a song to creation, love, and hope.

"Not only is she a great artist, she is a magician, that is, someone in touch with other levels of reality." --William S. Burroughs

"Patti Smith is an intergenerational goddess." --Montserrat Dom璯guez

"God whispers through a wrinkle in the wallpaper," writes Patti Smith in these extraordinary memoirs in which, from her first memory to her current concerns, she weaves an unforgettable tale of a life devoted to beauty, music, poetry, and love.

Born into a working-class family shortly after World War II, her Dickensian childhood was spent between evictions and illnesses, interspersed with games and storybooks that opened the doors to a world full of magic and dreams of freedom. She soon discovered in Arthur Rimbaud and Bob Dylan the models for her own poems and songs, and in New York, a new artistic territory where she formed a band and composed legendary albums such as Horses and Because the Night. Love and family, loss and reconstruction, and always writing will be the constants of a life driven by artistic freedom and the power of imagination to transform the everyday into the sacred, the common into the magical, and pain into hope.