{"product_id":"patti-smith-bread-of-angels","title":"Patti Smith: Bread of Angels","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBloomsbury Publishing, 2026, softcover, 288 pages, 12.6 x 19.4 cm\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e'God whispers through a crease in the wallpaper', writes Patti Smith in this moving account of her life. Her childhood imagination blossoms in the condemned housing complex where Smith grows up. Captain of her loyal sibling army, she vanquishes bullies, communes with the king of tortoises and searches for silver pennies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWe follow Smith through her teen years and creative evolution: Arthur Rimbaud and Bob Dylan emerge as early influences, poetry collides with performance, leading to a rock and roll band and the recording of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eHorses\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSmith leaves public life to marry her one true love, Fred Sonic Smith. On a canal in St Clair Shores, they build a home and start a family while each day she enters a room of her own at awn to write. When her reverie is shattered by a series of profound losses, Smith cares for her children in the aftermath; slowly, she begins to write again.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eBoth a prequel and a sequel to \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eJust Kids\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e, this memoir is an ode to love, sacrifice and the artist's calling\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ICA Bookstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":60066808234368,"sku":null,"price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0012\/4390\/6109\/files\/61JhuhgfOlL._SY522.jpg?v=1791384544","url":"https:\/\/shop.ica.art\/products\/patti-smith-bread-of-angels","provider":"ICA Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}