{"product_id":"david-wojnarowicz-close-to-the-knives-a-memoir-of-disintegration-1991-signed","title":"David Wojnarowicz — Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration (1991), signed","description":"\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublished:\u003c\/strong\u003e Vintage Books, New York, 1991\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eEdition:\u003c\/strong\u003e First edition (paperback original)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBinding:\u003c\/strong\u003e Publisher's wrappers\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 288 pp.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/strong\u003e English\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0-679-73227-6\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eSignature:\u003c\/strong\u003e Signed in red ink on the title page in the year of publication.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e Near fine; pages toned, slight spine crease.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eWojnarowicz's memoir and manifesto, published by Vintage in 1991 as a paperback original, a year before he died of AIDS at thirty-seven. It moves between childhood violence, hustling in Times Square, the abandoned West Side piers, the death of Peter Hujar, his own diagnosis and the government's indifference to the epidemic, in sentences that refuse any line between private grief and politics.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt its centre is \"Postcards from America: X-Rays from Hell\", written for the 1989 exhibition Witnesses: Against Our Vanishing, whose attacks on Cardinal O'Connor and Senator Jesse Helms led the National Endowment for the Arts to withdraw its grant. It is one of the defining texts of the AIDS years and the culture wars, and it has stayed in print as a primer for each new generation of artists and activists.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSigned in red ink in the year of publication.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"David Wojnarowicz","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67894717251901,"sku":"DI-044","price":3100.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1024\/2857\/4013\/files\/unnamed_f4824090-fd98-4e78-bb3c-5ea270b26987.jpg?v=1793689185","url":"https:\/\/docksideinterview.com\/products\/david-wojnarowicz-close-to-the-knives-a-memoir-of-disintegration-1991-signed","provider":"Dockside Interview","version":"1.0","type":"link"}