 Author Name: Rivers, Larry; Weinstein, Arnold
Title: What Did I Do?: The Unauthorized Autobiography of Larry Rivers
Book Condition: Very Good.
ISBN Number: 0060190078 / 9780060190071
Seller ID: 0712B752497
Hardcover. Stated 1st edition hardcover with dustjacket 1992 HarperCollins. Superclean; no marks. Bumped edge. Pages bright; binding tight. Light wear to jacket. 498pp, Index, B/W photos. Language: English. NOTE: Cannot ship outside U.S. via Global Priority -- Surface or Airmail only. 'Rivers's exuberantly hip, sexually freewheeling autobiography displays his relentless, almost exhibitionistic candor, as some of his paintings do. Born Yitzroch Loiza Grossberg in 1923, he was raised in the Bronx by a hypercritical mother and a father reportedly guilty of bizarre sexual improprieties with children. A bebop jazz saxophonist with a heroin habit, Rivers abandoned his first wife and their sons in 1947. He later married his Welsh housekeeper, a deliciously unique female; they separated in 1968. Written with playwright-director Weinstein, this gossipy collage dissects the incestuous social world of a New York avant-garde that included John Ashbery, Helen Frankenthaler, Kenneth Koch, Andy Warhol, LeRoi Jones and Delmore Schwartz. Rivers is most emotive when discussing his romantic fling with poet Frank O'Hara. Somewhere inside this messy self-portrait is the intriguing story of how Rivers found his path as a brash, innovative artist.'--Publishers Weekly, 1992.
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