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Insomniac City - Bill Hayes

Insomniac City

New York, Oliver, and Me

(Autor)

Buch | Hardcover
304 Seiten
2017
Bloomsbury Publishing USA (Verlag)
978-1-62040-493-5 (ISBN)
CHF 36,90 inkl. MwSt
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A moving celebration of what Bill Hayes calls "the evanescent, the eavesdropped, the unexpected" of life in New York City, and an intimate glimpse of his relationship with the late Oliver Sacks.

"A beautifully written once-in-a-lifetime book, about love, about life, soul, and the wonderful loving genius Oliver Sacks, and New York, and laughter and all of creation."--Anne Lamott

Bill Hayes came to New York City in 2009 with a one-way ticket and only the vaguest idea of how he would get by. But, at forty-eight years old, having spent decades in San Francisco, he craved change. Grieving over the death of his partner, he quickly discovered the profound consolations of the city's incessant rhythms, the sight of the Empire State Building against the night sky, and New Yorkers themselves, kindred souls that Hayes, a lifelong insomniac, encountered on late-night strolls with his camera.

And he unexpectedly fell in love again, with his friend and neighbor, the writer and neurologist Oliver Sacks, whose exuberance--"I don't so much fear death as I do wasting life," he tells Hayes early on--is captured in funny and touching vignettes throughout. What emerges is a portrait of Sacks at his most personal and endearing, from falling in love for the first time at age seventy-five to facing illness and death (Sacks died of cancer in August 2015). Insomniac City is both a meditation on grief and a celebration of life. Filled with Hayes's distinctive street photos of everyday New Yorkers, the book is a love song to the city and to all who have felt the particular magic and solace it offers.

Bill Hayes is the author of The Anatomist, Five Quarts, and Sleep Demons. He is a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in nonfiction and was a visiting scholar at the American Academy in Rome. He is a frequent contributor to the New York Times, and his writing has appeared in The New York Review of Books and Salon, among other publications. His photographs have been featured in Vanity Fair, the New York Times, and the New Yorker. He lives in New York. Visit his website at billhayes.com

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo B&W photos throughout
Verlagsort New York
Sprache englisch
Maße 140 x 210 mm
Gewicht 470 g
Themenwelt Literatur Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
Literatur Briefe / Tagebücher
Literatur Comic / Humor / Manga Comic
Kunst / Musik / Theater Fotokunst
Sachbuch/Ratgeber Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie Partnerschaft / Sexualität
Reisen Reiseberichte Nord- / Mittelamerika
ISBN-10 1-62040-493-1 / 1620404931
ISBN-13 978-1-62040-493-5 / 9781620404935
Zustand Neuware
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