Close to the knives : a memoir of disintegration /
"...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...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc.,
1991.
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| Online Access: | Publisher description |
| 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. |
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| Item Description: | "A Vintage original"--Title page verso. The Cushing Library/Women & Gender Studies copy was acquired as part of The Don Kelly Research Collection of Gay Literature and Culture. |
| Physical Description: | 276 pages ; 21 cm |
| ISBN: | 0679732276 9780679732273 |