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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Library Journal Review     Publisher Weekly Review     More Content       More by this author     Wojnarowicz, David.     Subjects     Wojnarowicz, David -- Health.     AIDS (Disease) -- Patients -- United States -- Biography.     Gay men -- United States -- Biography.     Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography.     Artists -- United States -- 20th century -- Biography.     Gay authors -- United States -- 20th century -- Biography.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Wojnarowicz, David.       by title:      Close to the knives ...       by call number:      362.1969792 W847c     Search the Web     Wojnarowicz, David.     Wojnarowicz, David -- Health.     AIDS (Disease) -- Patients -- United States -- Biography.     Gay men -- United States -- Biography.     Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography.     Artists -- United States -- 20th century -- Biography.     Gay authors -- United States -- 20th century -- Biography.       MARC Display

Close to the knives : a memoir of disintegration / David Wojnarowicz. by Wojnarowicz, David. Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., 1991. Call #: 362.1969792 W847c Subjects Wojnarowicz, David -- Health.   AIDS (Disease) -- Patients -- United States -- Biography.   Gay men -- United States -- Biography.   Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography.   Artists -- United States -- 20th century -- Biography.   Gay authors -- United States -- 20th century -- Biography. ISBN:  9780679732273 (pbk.) Description:  276 p. ; 21 cm. Notes:  "A Vintage original"--T. p. verso. 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. 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. Genre:  Memoirs. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Central Library Adult Nonfiction 362.1969792 W847c Core Collection - Adult Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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