Life on sandpaper / Yoram Kaniuk ; translated by Anthony Berris.
Kaniuk, Yoram.; Berris, Anthony.
2011
PJ5054.K326 H2313 2011 (Mapit)
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Title
Life on sandpaper / Yoram Kaniuk ; translated by Anthony Berris.
Author
Kaniuk, Yoram.
Uniform Title
Ḥayim ʻal neyar zekhukhit. English
Edition
1st ed.
ISBN
9781564786135 (pbk.)
1564786137 (pbk.)
Publication Details
Champaign [Ill.] : Dalkey Archive Press, 2011.
Language
English
Description
417 p. ; 21 cm.
Call Number
PJ5054.K326 H2313 2011
Dewey Decimal Classification
892.4/36 B
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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Translation of: Ḥayim ʻal neyar zekhukhit.
Added Author
Berris, Anthony.
Series
Hebrew literature series.
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