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Close to the knives : a memoir of disintegration
- Title
- Close to the knives : a memoir of disintegration / David Wojnarowicz.
- Author
- Wojnarowicz, David
- Publication
- New York : Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., 1991.
- Supplementary Content
- Publisher description
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Details
- Description
- 276 pages; 21 cm
- 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 [the author's] 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."-- Publisher description.
- Subjects
- Artists
- Gay authors
- Gay men
- Authors, American
- Essays
- AIDS (Disease) > Patients
- Artists > United States > 20th century > Biography
- Gay men > United States > Biography
- Biographies
- Health
- Authors, American > 20th century > Biography
- Wojnarowicz, David > Health
- 1900-1999
- Essays > 20th century > Biography
- AIDS (Disease) > Patients > United States > Biography
- Gay authors > United States > 20th century > Biography
- United States
- Biography
- Genre/Form
- Biographies.
- Biography.
- Note
- "A Vintage original"--Title page verso.
- Additional Formats (note)
- Also issued online.
- Contents
- Self-portrait in twenty-three rounds -- Losing the form in darkness -- In the shadow of the American Dream : soon all this will be picturesque ruins -- Being Queer in America : a journal of disintegration -- Living close to the knives -- Postcards from America : X-rays from hell ; The seven deadly sins fact sheet ; Additional statistics and facts -- Do not doubt the dangerousness of the 12-inch-tall politician -- The suicide of a guy who once built an elaborate shrine over a mouse hole.
- Call Number
- JFD 91-8393
- ISBN
- 9780679732273
- 0679732276
- LCCN
- 90050210
- OCLC
- 21902029
- Author
- Wojnarowicz, David, author.
- Title
- Close to the knives : a memoir of disintegration / David Wojnarowicz.
- Publisher
- New York : Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., 1991.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Additional Formats
- Also issued online.
- Connect to:
- Chronological Term
- 1900-1999
- Other Form:
- Online version: Wojnarowicz, David. Close to the knives. New York : Vintage Books, 1991 (OCoLC)555607262Online version: Wojnarowicz, David. Close to the knives. New York : Vintage Books, 1991 (OCoLC)608345613
- Research Call Number
- JFD 91-8393