Close to the Knives
Subtitle: A Memoir of Disintegration
Publisher: Canongate Books
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9781786890276
Subjects: Artists, united states; Artists, biography
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.