| ISBN |
9781786890276 (paperback) |
| Author |
Wojnarowicz, David author. |
| Title |
Close to the knives : a memoir of disintegration / David Wojnarowicz ; introduction by Olivia Laing. |
| Publisher/Date |
Edinburgh : Canongate Books Ltd, 2017. |
| ©1991 |
| Pagination etc. |
viii, 288 pages ; 20 cm. |
| Series |
Canons (Canongate Books Ltd.) |
| Contents note |
First published in the United States in 1991 by Vintage Books. |
| Summary Note |
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. |
| Subject - Name |
Wojnarowicz, David -- Health |
| Wojnarowicz, David |
| Subject |
AIDS (Disease) -- Patients -- United States -- Biography |
| Gay men -- United States -- Biography |
| Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography |
| Artists -- United States -- 20th century -- Biography |
| Artists -- United States -- Biography |
| Autobiographies. |
| Added Author |
Laing, Olivia writer of introduction. |
| Shelf Location |
362.19697 WOJN |
