Éramos unos niños

It happened in July 1967—they were mere youths—but from that moment on, Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe forged a friendship that would only end with the great photographer's death in 1989. This splendid, National Book Award-winning memoir chronicles the shared life of these two artists—both enthusiastic and passionate—who strode from the fringes of New York to the very heart of the new art scene. That journey led them to the Chelsea Hotel, where they became central figures in a vanished world—a realm ruled by Allen Ginsberg, Andy Warhol, and his entourage, and where the great bands that defined the late 20th century were formed, all while the AIDS epidemic was wreaking havoc.