Albertine Sarrazin (1937-67) was a French-Algerian writer who penned her first two novels while imprisoned.
At the age of twenty-one, a sad and hungry Patti Smith walked into a bookshop in Greenwich Village and decided to spend her last 99 cents on a novel that would change her life forever. The book was Astragal, by Albertine Sarrazin. Sarrazin was an enigmatic outsider who had spent time in jail and who wrote only two novels and a book of poems in her short life - she died the year before Patti found her book, at the age of twenty-nine.
Hardback First Grove Press Edition, 1967 Second Printing
