An intimate portrait of poet, painter, musician and singer Patti Smith that mirrors the essence of the artist herself.

这是爱的夏天，也是躁动的夏天，一次在布鲁克林的偶遇，将两个年轻人引向了艺术、奉献和启蒙的道路。
日后，帕蒂·史密斯会成为一名诗人和表演者，罗伯特·梅普尔索普则将自己极具挑衅的风格对准摄影。而此时，他们只是两个饥肠辘辘的年轻人，在城市中穿行，被纯真和热情所裹挟。从科尼岛到 第四十二街，他们感受着城市的脉搏，并最终来到“马克斯的堪萨斯城”。——在那著名的圆桌旁，“波普教皇”安迪·沃霍尔已身影不再，但他的王室成员们仍在此接受朝拜。
1969年，人类登月之年，他们驻扎进了切尔西旅馆，并很快融入这个由声名狼藉者和名声显赫者所组成的社群，结识了当时最富影响力的艺术家和各式各样的边缘异客。
这是一个各种意识都分外高涨的时代，诗歌、摇滚、艺术和性别政治的不同世界，在彼此碰撞、炸裂。在这样的氛围之下，两个孩子约定，要看顾彼此。他们是斗志昂扬的浪漫主义者，将自己完全献身于创作，并被对方的梦想和渴望所点燃。在饥饿的年月里，他们轮流为对方提供着激励和养料。
《只是孩子》以爱情故事开始，以挽歌结尾。它是对于上世纪六七十年代的纽约的一次礼赞，那时，这座城市正在逐渐发展为西方世界的文化之都。这本书记述了它的富庶和贫穷，也描摹了它的混混和恶棍。它讲述了一个真实的神话，勾勒出一幅正在向上攀登的年轻艺术家的画像，而预示着名望降临的序曲也随之奏响。

From the National Book Award - winning author of Just an unforgettable odyssey of a legendary artist, told through the prism of the cafés and haunts she has worked in around the world. It is a book Patti Smith has described as 'a roadmap to my life.' M Train begins in the tiny Greenwich Village café where Smith goes every morning for black coffee, ruminates on the world as it is and the world as it was, and writes in her notebook. Through prose that shifts fluidly between dreams and reality, past and present, and across a landscape of creative aspirations and inspirations, we travel to Frida Kahlo's Casa Azul in Mexico; to a meeting of an Arctic explorer's society in Berlin; to a ramshackle seaside bungalow in New York's Far Rockaway that Smith acquires just before Hurricane Sandy hits; and to the graves of Genet, Plath, Rimbaud, and Mishima. Woven throughout are reflections on the writer's craft and on artistic creation. Here, too, are singular memories of Smith's life in Michigan and the irremediable loss of her husband, Fred Sonic Smith. Braiding despair with hope and consolation, illustrated with her signature Polaroids, M Train is a meditation on travel, detective shows, literature, and coffee. It is a powerful, deeply moving book by one of the most remarkable multiplatform artists at work today.