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Publisher: Canongate

Author: David Wojnarowicz

ISBN: 9781786890276

Year: 2017

Format: Paperback

Non fiction, Memoir

Close to the Knives by
David Wojnarowicz

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$ 400.00 mxn

Close to the Knives by

David Wojnarowicz

Reviews

"My book of a lifetime, my book for these dark times, an antidote to stupidity, cruelty and oppression of all kinds"

Olivia Laing

Summary

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.

“To a man born without conscience, a soul-stricken man must seem ridiculous. To a criminal, honesty is foolish. You must not forget that a monster is only a variation, and that to a monster the norm is monstrous.”

John Steinbeck

“I knew when I had looked for a long time that I had hardly begun to see.”

Nan Shepard

“What a mistake, above all, it had been to believe that I couldn’t live without him, when for a long time I had not been at all certain that I was alive with him.”

Elena Ferrante

“Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.”

George Orwell

“How short a time a person had to be alive, he thought. How long to be dead.”

Kate Grenville