TY - BOOK AB - 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. AU - Kaniuk, Yoram. AU - Berris, Anthony. CN - PJ5054.K326 CN - PJ5054.K326 CY - Champaign [Ill.] : DA - 2011. ET - 1st ed. ID - 351258 KW - Authors, Israeli KW - Painters LA - eng N1 - Translation of: Ḥayim ʻal neyar zekhukhit. N2 - 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. PB - Dalkey Archive Press, PP - Champaign [Ill.] : PY - 2011. SN - 9781564786135 (pbk.) SN - 1564786137 (pbk.) T1 - Life on sandpaper / TI - Life on sandpaper / ER -