Life on sandpaper / Yoram Kaniuk ; translated by Anthony Berris.
An autobiographical novel of Yoram Kaniuk's years as a young painter in the New York of the 1950s. Wounded and alienated, a war veteran at the age of nineteen, Kaniuk arrives in Greenwich Village at its peak period of artistic creativity, and finds his way among such giants as Charlie Parker, B...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English Hebrew |
| Published: | Champaign [Ill.] : Dalkey Archive Press, 2011. |
| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | Hebrew literature series.
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| Summary: | An autobiographical novel of Yoram Kaniuk's years as a young painter in the New York of the 1950s. Wounded and alienated, a war veteran at the age of nineteen, Kaniuk arrives in Greenwich Village at its peak period of artistic creativity, and finds his way among such giants as Charlie Parker, Billie Holiday, Willem de Kooning, and Frank Sinatra. |
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| Item Description: | Translation of: Ḥayim ʻal neyar zekhukhit. |
| Physical Description: | 417 pages ; 21 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9781564786135 (pbk.) 1564786137 (pbk.) |
| FOLIO Link: | View instance in FOLIO |