Life on sandpaper / Yoram Kaniuk ; translated by Anthony Berris.

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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...

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Uniform Title:Ḥayim ʻal neyar zekhukhit. English
Hebrew literature series.
Main Author: Kaniuk, Yoram
Other Authors: Berris, Anthony
Language:English
Language of the Original:
Hebrew
Published: Champaign [Ill.] : Dalkey Archive Press, 2011.
Edition:First edition.
Series:Hebrew literature series.
Subjects:
Kaniuk, Yoram > Fiction.
Authors, Israeli > Fiction.
Painters > Fiction.
New York (N.Y.) > Fiction.
Autobiographical fiction.
Genre:
Fiction.
Autobiographical fiction.
Physical Description:417 pages ; 21 cm.
Format: Book
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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.
Note:Translation of: Ḥayim ʻal neyar zekhukhit.
Call Number:PJ5054.K326 H2313 2011
ISBN:9781564786135 (pbk.)
1564786137 (pbk.)