Close to the Knives
A Memoir of Disintegration
by David Wojnarowicz
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Pub Date 2 Mar 2017 | Archive Date 2 Mar 2017
Canongate Books | Canongate Canons
Description
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.
Advance Praise
'David Wojnarowicz has caught the age-old voice of the road, the voice of the traveller, the outcast, the thief, the whore . . . Pick up this book and listen' - William S. Burroughs
'David Wojnarowicz: still fighting prejudice 24 years after his death . . . Nothing I have ever read matches the fury and grief of this writing' - Olivia Laing, Guardian
'Wojnarowicz's writing fairly smokes with acrid ironies. It's passionate and personal' - New York Magazine
'David Wojnarowicz: still fighting prejudice 24 years after his death . . . Nothing I have ever read matches the fury and grief of this writing' - Olivia Laing, Guardian
'Wojnarowicz's writing fairly smokes with acrid ironies. It's passionate and personal' - New York Magazine
Available Editions
| EDITION | Paperback |
| ISBN | 9781786890276 |
| PRICE | £8.99 (GBP) |
