@article{351258, note = {Translation of: Ḥayim ʻal neyar zekhukhit.}, author = {Kaniuk, Yoram. and Berris, Anthony.}, url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/351258}, title = {Life on sandpaper /}, publisher = {Dalkey Archive Press,}, abstract = {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.}, recid = {351258}, pages = {417 p. ;}, address = {Champaign [Ill.] :}, year = {2011}, }