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Description Susan Sontag writes: "Of the novelists I have discovered in translation . . . the three for whom I have the greatest admiration are Gabriel Garci a Ma rquez, Peter Handke, and Yoram Kaniuk."
A whirlwind of art, music, and lust, Life on Sandpaper is Yoram Kaniuk's overwhelming autobiographical novel detailing his years as a young painter in the New York of the '50s. 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. In terse prose, inspired by the associative and breathless drive of bebop, Kaniuk's memories race between the ecstatic devotion of his beloved Harlem jazz clubs, through the ideological spats of the dying Yiddish world of the Lower East Side, to the volcanic gush of passion, pain, art, dance, alcohol, and drugs that was Greenwich Village. Kaniuk's stories roll and tumble here with hypnotic urgency, as if this were his last opportunity to remember, and tell, before all is obliterated.
Yoram Kaniuk was born in Tel Aviv in 1930. A novelist, paintYoram Kaniuk was born in Tel Aviv in 1930. A novelist, painter, and journalist, Kaniuk has published more than thirty boer, and journalist, Kaniuk has published more than thirty books of fiction and cultural commentary, including the novel oks of fiction and cultural commentary, including the novel The Last Jew, which appeared in English translation in 2006.The Last Jew, which appeared in English translation in 2006. A feature film based on his novel Adam Resurrected was rele A feature film based on his novel Adam Resurrected was rele
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