# Close to the Knives

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- Book: [Close to the Knives](https://www.bookquiver.com/david-wojnarowicz/close-to-the-knives) ([Close to the Knives.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/david-wojnarowicz/close-to-the-knives.md))
- Authors: [David Wojnarowicz](https://www.bookquiver.com/david-wojnarowicz)
- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-06-7973-227-3
- Pages: 288
- Published: 1991-05-07
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

In 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...