{"product_id":"9781608194209","title":"Fire in the Belly: The Life and Times of David Wojnarowicz","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"[\u003ci\u003eFire in the Belly\u003c\/i\u003e is] unimprovable as a biography-thorough, measured, beautifully written, loving but not uncritical-as a concentrated history of his times, and as a memorial.” -Luc Sante, \u003ci\u003eBookforum\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDavid 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 around himself. His circle of East Village artists moved into the national spotlight just as the AIDS plague began its devastating advance, and as right-wing culture warriors reared their heads. As Wojnarowicz's reputation as an artist grew, so did his reputation as an agitator-because he dealt so openly with his homosexuality, so angrily with his circumstances as a Person With AIDS, and so fiercely with his would-be censors.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFire in the Belly\u003c\/i\u003e is the untold story of a polarizing figure at a pivotal moment in American culture-and one of the most highly acclaimed biographies of the year.","brand":"Bloomsbury USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47184878731504,"sku":"9781608194209","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781608194209_p0.jpg?v=1763831750","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781608194209","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}