Year of the Monkey

De: Patti Smith

Narrado por: Patti Smith

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).

eloquent, evocative, peaceful

Narrated by the author herself, Ms. Smith reveals her eloquent talent to share her life milestones, replete with innocence, joy, wisdom and sorrow. At once a loving eulogy to her best friend, her younger years and the Bay Area, I highly recommend this book.

Loved it

I loved this book. So interesting, so revelatory. Her life, and her storytelling are very thought provoking.

where reality, poetry,and dreams collide...amazing

I love listening to Patti. So raw, open, and honest. May we never repeat The year of the Monkey.

She Pulls Us Through The Mystery

I listened over and over. Her narrative gathers and speaks the deepest places of the soul. Her honesty so bare, with the last thought always of hope. The words are prayers.

Enjoyed escaping into Patti's world

Enjoyed escaping into Patti's world, her reality, conscious and subconscious. Her thoughts and travels during 2016. Fitting title... I've been thinking quite a bit about the Lunar New Year, as we pass from the Year of Rat into the Year of the Ox. Wish I could read or hear more about Patti's thoughts on that specifically, maybe her next book.