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

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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...

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Moods

dark 89%
reflective 82%
emotional 77%
challenging 73%
sad 63%
informative 24%
inspiring 21%
tense 17%
funny 8%
hopeful 8%
adventurous 7%

Pace

medium 51%
slow 40%
fast 8%

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