Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration Format:Paperback and Jackson beautifully lays out

and Jackson beautifully lays out how far we've come since Stonewall -- the increased visibility of gay people in society

When you spend your life at the top

ebullient Angel has fled her mother's house

but still largely unrecognized

Therese begins to gravitate toward the alluring suburban housewife

Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration Format:Paperback and Jackson beautifully lays outIn Close to the Knives, David Wojnarowicz gives us an important and timely document: a collection of creative essays a scathing, sexy, sublimely humorous and honest personal testimony to the Fear of Diversity in America. From the author's violent childhood in suburbia to eventual homelessness on the streets and piers of New York City, to recognition as one of the most provocative artists of his generation Close to the Knives is his powerful and