The Waterfront journals / David Wojnarowicz.
The Waterfront journals / David Wojnarowicz.
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Author / Creator
Publisher
London : Peninsula Grove Press, c2018.
Call Numbers
G 2019/1456
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Language
English
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Physical Description
Physical content
189 pages ; 20 cm.
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
Man in harbor coffee shop -- Guy on Second Avenue 1:00 A.M. -- Guy in waterfront hotel -- Twenty-year-old woman in Times Square -- Kentucky trucker in the Rocky Mountains -- Woman in Chinese-American coffee shop -- Man in Portland movie theater -- Fourteen-year-old runaway girl -- Young guy hanging...
Twenty-five-year-old guy at YMCA two weeks after self-imposed hermitude in a boarded-up house in New Orleans -- Young boy in seafood restaurant -- Elderly transvestite on Second Avenue (evening) -- Canada-bound trucker on Interstate 90 -- Man in Sheridan Square Park drinking 1:00 A.M. -- Boy in Horn...
Publication information
Publisher
London : Peninsula Grove Press, c2018.
Place of Publication
England
Date Published
c2018.
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Summary
Before his death from AIDS in 1992, David Wojnarowicz became known in th 1980s as an outspoken AIDS activist, anticensorship advocate, artist, and writer. Written as short monologues, each of these powerful, early works of autobiographical fiction is spoken in the voice of a character he stumbles upon during travels throughout America.
Written as short monologues, each is in the voice of one of the numerous people he encountered in his travels throughout America in the late 1970s and early 1980s. He stumbled across his characters in bus stations, hotels, coffee shops, truck stops, and back alleys, where their interactions are less than epic, but unnervingly intimate. They are str...
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Full title
The Waterfront journals / David Wojnarowicz.
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Author / Creator
Notes
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Published in 1996 by Grove Press.
"With an introduction by Philip Hoare and an afterword by Olivia Laing"
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Date Copyright
c2018.
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Call Numbers
G 2019/1456
Record Identifier
74VKVBPgzkAl
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKVBPgzkAl
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ISBN
9781999922313
DDC
813/.54
MMS ID
991024237615402626
