Life on Sandpaper

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 ...