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.
Publisher: Faber & FaberISBN: 9780571346998Number of pages: 144Weight: 135 gDimensions: 198 x 131 x 12 mmEdition: Main
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