Close to the knives : a memoir of disintegration / David Wojnarowicz ; introduction by Olivia Laing.

  • Wojnarowicz, David
Date:
2017
  • Books

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Description

From the author's violent childhood in suburbia to eventual homelessness on the streets and piers of New York City, to recognition as one of the most provocative artists of his generation - Close to the Knives is his powerful and iconoclastic memoir. Street life, drugs, art and nature, family, AIDS, politics, friendship and acceptance: Wojnarowicz challenges us to examine our lives - politically, socially, emotionally, and aesthetically.

Publication/Creation

Edinburgh : Canongate Books Ltd, 2017.

Physical description

viii, 288 pages ; 20 cm.

Notes

"First published in the United States in 1991 by Vintage Books ... "--Opposite of title page.

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    History of Medicine
    FEJ.AI
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  • 9781786890276
  • 1786890275