The first full biography of legendary East Village artist and gay activist David Wojnarowicz, whose work continues to provoke twenty years after his death''Carr-s biography is both sympathetic and compendious; it-s also a many-angled account of the downtown art world of the 1980s . . . a vivid and peculiarly American story''New York Times''A beautifully written, sympathetic, unsentimental portrait of one of the most lastingly influential late 20th century New York artists'' LA Times______________________David Wojnarowicz was an abused child, a teen runaway who barely finished high school, but he emerged as one of the most important voices of his generation.He found his tribe in New York-s East Village, a neighborhood noted in the 1970s and -80s for drugs, blight, and a burgeoning art scene. His creativity spilled out in paintings, photographs, films, texts, installations, and in his life and its recounting-creating a sort of mythos aroun
