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Availability:In StockContributor:Lilly DancygerSeries:Sfwp Literary AwardsPublish date:2021-05-01Pages:234
Language:EnglishPublisher:Santa Fe Writer's ProjectISBN-13:9781951631031ISBN-10:195163103XUPC:9781951631031Book Category:Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Artists, Architects, Photographers, JewishSize:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.9304Product ID:SCX56ABGPY
Despite her parents' struggles with addiction, Lilly Dancyger always thought of her childhood as a happy one. But what happens when a journalist interrogates her own rosy memories to reveal the instability around the edges? Dancyger's father, Joe Schactman, was part of the iconic 1980s East Village art scene. He created provocative sculptures out of found materials like animal bones, human hair, and broken glass, and brought his young daughter into his gritty, iconoclastic world. She idolized him--despite the escalating heroin addiction that sometimes overshadowed his creative passion. When Schactman died suddenly, just as Dancyger was entering adolescence, she went into her own self-destructive spiral, raging against a world that had taken her father away. As an adult, Dancyger began to question the mythology she'd created about her father--the brilliant artist, struck down in his prime. Using his sculptures, paintings, and prints as a guide, Dancyger sought out the characters from his world who could help her decode the language of her father's work to find the truth of who he really was.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Santa Fe Writer's ProjectISBN-13:9781951631031ISBN-10:195163103XUPC:9781951631031Book Category:Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Artists, Architects, Photographers, JewishSize:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.9304Product ID:SCX56ABGPY
Lilly Dancyger is a contributing editor at Catapult, and assistant editor at Barrelhouse Books. She's the editor of Burn It Down, a critically acclaimed anthology of essays on women's anger, and her writing has been published by Rolling Stone, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, Playboy, Glamour, Longreads, The Rumpus, and more. She lives in New York City.
Publisher: Santa Fe Writer's Project

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