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Synopsis
A collection of autobiographical essays which chart the author's life, from his violent childhood in suburbia, to his homelessness on the streets of New York City, to his eventual triumph as an artist. It explores American street life and street culture.
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About the Author
David Wojnarowicz is a visual and performance artist and writer. He has exhibited his visual art in galleries worldwide and has collaborated on many films and videos, including Silence=Death. He lives in New York City.
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David Wojnarowicz has caught the age-old voice of the road, the voice of the traveller, the outcast... pick up his book and listen * William S. Burroughs * Majestically cynical and relentlessly honest. David Wojnarowicz flays readers with his anger and intelligence. If you are nauseated by the smugness of Susan Sontag, sickened by the homophobia of Julie Burchill, and revolted by New Age-ism in all its loathsome varieties - this is the AIDS text for you -- Simon Watney ?What Kerouac was to a generation of alienated youth, what Genet was to the gay demimonde in postwar Europe, Wojnarowicz may well be to a new cadre of artists... This is a book sublime in poetry * fierce in outrage * ' Publishers Weekly
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- PublisherSerpents Tail/consortium
- Publication date1992
- ISBN 10 1852422580
- ISBN 13 9781852422585
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages288
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Close to the Knives A Memoir of Disintegration
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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First U.K. edition. Features image on cover by Wojnarowicz not used on U.S. edition. Light tanning to pages. Otherwise clean and unmarked with no reading crease to spine. Binding is sound. 276 pages. s166. Seller Inventory # EDB05953
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Close to the Knives
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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First UK edition, first printing. The rare UK edition with a completely different cover featuring a colorful painting by Wojanarowicz. A clean and tight copy with no markings, some reading creases, rubbing and edgewear with a bit fading to covers. Seller Inventory # 002515
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