“Patti Smith has graced us with a poetic masterpiece.”—Johnny DeppJust Kids begins as a love story and ends as an elegy. It serves as a salute to New York City during the late sixties and seventies and to its rich and poor, its hustlers and hellions. A true fable, it is a portrait of two young artists’ ascent, a prelude to fame.“This book is so honest and pure as to count as a true rapture.”—Joan Didion