By Yoram Kaniuk

Susan Sontag writes: “Of the novelists i've got came across in translation . . . the 3 for whom i've got the best admiration are Gabriel García Márquez, Peter Handke, and Yoram Kaniuk.“

A whirlwind of paintings, track, and lust, Life on Sandpaper is Yoram Kaniuk’s overwhelming autobiographical novel detailing his years as a tender painter within the big apple of the ‘50s. Wounded and alienated, a battle veteran on the age of 19, Kaniuk arrives in Greenwich Village at its top interval of inventive creativity, and reveals his means between such giants as Charlie Parker, Billie vacation, Willem de Kooning, and Frank Sinatra. In terse prose, encouraged by way of the associative and breathless force of bebop, Kaniuk’s stories race among the ecstatic devotion of his loved Harlem jazz golf equipment, in the course of the ideological spats of the loss of life Yiddish international of the reduce East facet, to the volcanic gush of ardour, ache, paintings, dance, alcohol, and medicine that used to be Greenwich Village. Kaniuk’s tales roll and tumble the following with hypnotic urgency, as though this have been his final chance to recollect, and inform, ahead of all is obliterated.

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