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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
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.