Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration by David Wojnarowicz

Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration

David Wojnarowicz

279 pages first pub 1991 (editions)

nonfiction lgbtqia+ memoir dark emotional reflective medium-paced
Powered by AI (Beta)
Loading...

Description

The “fierce, erotic, haunting, truthful” memoirs of an extraordinary artist, activist, and iconoclast who lit up late-twentieth-century New York (Dennis Cooper). David Wojnarowicz’s brief but eventful life was not easy. From a suburban adolescence...

Read more

Community Reviews Summary of 529 reviews

Moods

dark 87%
reflective 82%
emotional 79%
challenging 72%
sad 64%
informative 24%
inspiring 20%
tense 18%
funny 9%
adventurous 7%
hopeful 6%
mysterious 1%

Pace

medium 47%
slow 45%
fast 6%

Average rating

4.54

See all reviews...

Content Warnings

Submitted by users as part of their reviews

Expand filter menu View summary

See all...