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Sleepless Nights

Sleepless Nights

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  • Release Date: 04/07/2019
  • Barcode: 9780571346998
  • Genre: Fiction
  • Imprint: Faber
  • Publisher: Faber & Faber
Sleepless Nights

Sleepless Nights

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Above all, here is prose blurring into poetry, language to lose - and perhaps to find - yourself in.

Society tries to write these lives before they are lived.

Sally Rooney: 'High intelligence and beauty.'
Margo Jefferson: 'Extraordinary'

Rediscover a lost American classic in this kaleidoscopic scrapbook of one woman's memories, with a new introduction by Eimear McBride.

I am alone here in New York, no longer a
we .


First published in 1979, Sleepless Nights is a unique collage of fiction and memoir, letters and essays, portraits and dreams. It is more than the story of a life: it is Elizabeth Hardwick's experience of womanhood in the twentieth century. Escaping her childhood home of Kentucky, the narrator arrives at a bohemian hotel in Manhattan filled with 'drunks, actors, gamblers . love and alcohol and clothes on the floor.' Here begin the erotic affairs and dinner parties, the abortions and heartbreaks, the friendships and 'people I have buried'. Here are luminous sketches of characters she has met that illuminate the era's racism, sexism, and poverty. Above all, here is prose blurring into poetry, language to lose - and perhaps to find - yourself in.

Society tries to write these lives before they are lived. It does not always succeed.



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  • Contributor: Eimear McBride (Introduction by)
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