Bloomsbury Publishing PLC M Train

The book arrived much later than the expected delivery date, but I did not complain about that. However, the book arrived in this condition: • The pages are torn on the sides. • The copy quality is very poor. I paid a significant amount for this book, and in the end, it arrived like this.

Arrived moldy

M Train flows somewhere in the space where poetry and memoir intersect. It is filled with digressions, dreams and observations both mundane and illuminating. Everyone who reads it will probably have their own deeply personal interpretation, be moved by different passages, have an entry point unique to themselves and their own current life experience. When I re-read M Train, and I will re-read it, I will have another reaction, find new insights and gut emotions. This reading of M Train felt like a meditation on grief. M Train begins with the sentence "It's no so easy writing about nothing." M Train continues with Smith's struggle to write, to create. She writes about her personal life, her talismans, the difficulty of communicating, loss, photography, her travels and quests. She references obscure authors, literary writers, television detective series, and scientists. While structured, loosely, around her search for the perfect coffee and café environment, a sense of home, the words keep circling back to her memories of her late husband Fred Smith. The memories are haunting and M Train becomes a portrait, a evocation, of that limbo one finds oneself in when experiencing extreme grief and shock "Nothing" can refer to the trivial but it also refers to absence, to loss. M Train is not a conventional narrative and, depending on one's tastes, may slip over into pretension and whimsy. But when the themes and symbols - and to a certain extent the plotlines - coalesce, it is stunningly beautiful and gorgeous on a level that fuses the intellectual with the primal. Patti Smith is not "writing about nothing," she is conjuring on a level of almost unbearable beauty. Full review at: http://drewrowsome.blogspot.ca/2015/10/m-train-patti-smith-creates-art-out-of.html

le livre est édité en anglais. Hors, je ne connais pas l'anglais ni les moyens de le renvoyer à Amazon ni de me procurer une étiquette de renvoi et encore moins de me faire rembourser cet ouvrage. Le concept informatique d' Amazon pour le retour est un vrai casse-tête. Un vrai langage de sourd. Je pense que cet ouvrage est merveilleux aussi je ne puis donner une mauvaise note à Patti Smith. J'ai lu un article dans le Monde où ses commentaires, écrits en français, recelaient une envie forte de la lire. Merci à Patti Smith de penser à le faire traduire en français !

Very satisfied with the book