Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Sleepless Nights (New York Review Books Classics). Sleepless Nights by Elizabeth Hardwick, introduction by Geoffrey O'Brien 14. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Society tries to write these lives before they are lived. Sleepless Nights (New York Review Books Classics) - Kindle edition by Hardwick, Elizabeth, Geoffrey OBrien. Here’s the first line of her 1955 essay on George Eliot: She was melancholy, headachey, with a slow, disciplined, hard-won, aching genius that bore down upon her with a wondrous and exhausting. Above all, here is prose blurring into poetry, language to lose - and perhaps to find - yourself in. Kindle 9.99 Rate this book Sleepless Nights Elizabeth Hardwick, Geoffrey O'Brien 3.68 3,175ratings460reviews Want to read Kindle 9.99 Rate this book In Sleepless Nights FictionShort StoriesNovelsLiterary FictionAmericanClassicsLiterature. hard-bitten, lyrical book is not only Elizabeth Hardwicks finest fiction but. Here are luminous sketches of characters she has met that illuminate the era's racism, sexism, and poverty. It is more than the story of a life: it is Elizabeth Hardwicks experience of womanhood in the twentieth century. Buy Sleepless Nights Paperback Book By: Elizabeth Hardwick from as low as. Published in 1979 as a work of fiction, today we’d call it autofiction: an autobiography of Hardwicks life. 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'. Sleepless Nights by Elizabeth Hardwick is a complicated novel. Escaping her childhood home of Kentucky, the narrator arrives at a bohemian hotel in Manhattan filled with 'drunks, actors, gamblers. It is more than the story of a life: it is Elizabeth Hardwick's experience of womanhood in the twentieth century. įirst published in 1979, Sleepless Nights is a unique collage of fiction and memoir, letters and essays, portraits and dreams. I am alone here in New York, no longer a we. Rediscover a lost American classic: Sleepless Nights, a kaleidoscopic scrapbook of one woman's memories, here reissued with a new introduction by Eimear McBride.
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