03119cam a2200313 4500 529658244 TxAuBib 20211108120000.0 ||||||s2019||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780593155752 0593155750 56a42402-26dd-4cb7-b0d4-2f00ce2dfbba OverDrive (Reserve ID) 4657842 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Smith, Patti. Year of the Monkey [Libby]. Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group, 2019. Format: OverDrive OverDrive MP3 Audiobook, Filesize: 124MB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Listen, Filesize: 124MB. Biography & Autobiography. Literary Criticism. Nonfiction. HTML: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). Media Type: Audiobook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2021-11-04 17:40:22. https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/1191-1/4657842-YearOfTheMonkey.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=56a42402-26dd-4cb7-b0d4-2f00ce2dfbba&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/1191-1/4657842-YearOfTheMonkey.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive Listen) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=56a42402-26dd-4cb7-b0d4-2f00ce2dfbba&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Listen)