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Can I read Life on Sandpaper (Hebrew Literature Series) on EtoBox?
Life on Sandpaper (Hebrew Literature Series) by Kaniuk, Yoram is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Life on Sandpaper (Hebrew Literature Series) about?
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 1950s. 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 Kooning, and Frank Sinatra. In terse prose, inspired by the associative and breathless drive of bebop, Kaniuk's memories race between the ecstatic devotion of his beloved Harlem jazz clubs, through the ideological spats of the dying Yiddish world of the Lower East Side, to the volcanic gush of passion, pain, art, dance, alcohol, and drugs that was Greenwich Village. Kaniuk's stories roll and tumble here with hypnotic urgency, as if this were his last opportunity to remember, and tell, before all is obliterated.
Who reads Life on Sandpaper (Hebrew Literature Series)?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Kaniuk, Yoram
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Published
- 2003
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781564786135
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Memoir, Fiction, Literary Fiction
- Rating
- 3.61 / 5 (57 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14