Close to the knives : a memoir of disintegration

Title
  1. Close to the knives : a memoir of disintegration / David Wojnarowicz.
Published by
  1. New York : Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., 1991.
Supplementary content
  1. Publisher description
Author
  1. Wojnarowicz, David

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Description
  1. 276 pages; 21 cm
Summary
  1. "...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.
Subject
  1. Gay authors
  2. Artists
  3. AIDS (Disease) > Patients
  4. Authors, American
  5. Gay men
  6. Essays
  7. 1900-1999
  8. AIDS (Disease) > Patients > United States > Biography
  9. Authors, American > 20th century > Biography
  10. Wojnarowicz, David > Health
  11. Gay men > United States > Biography
  12. Gay authors > United States > 20th century > Biography
  13. Biographies
  14. Health
  15. Essays > 20th century > Biography
  16. Biography
  17. United States
  18. Artists > United States > 20th century > Biography
Genre/Form
  1. Biographies.
  2. Biography.
Contents
  1. 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
  1. JFD 91-8393
Note
  1. "A Vintage original"--Title page verso.
Additional formats (note)
  1. Also issued online.
Author
  1. Wojnarowicz, David, author.
Title
  1. Close to the knives : a memoir of disintegration / David Wojnarowicz.
Publisher
  1. New York : Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., 1991.
Type of content
  1. text
Type of medium
  1. unmediated
Type of carrier
  1. volume
Additional formats
  1. Also issued online.
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  1. Publisher description
Chronological term
  1. 1900-1999
Other form:
  1. Online version: Wojnarowicz, David. Close to the knives. New York : Vintage Books, 1991 (OCoLC)555607262
  2. Online version: Wojnarowicz, David. Close to the knives. New York : Vintage Books, 1991 (OCoLC)608345613
LCCN
  1. 90050210
ISBN
  1. 9780679732273 (paperback)
  2. 0679732276 (paperback)
Research call number
  1. JFD 91-8393
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