Insomniac City: New York, Oliver Sacks, and Me by Bill Hayes (English) Paperback

Description: Insomniac City by Bill Hayes ____________________________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 beautiful memoir in which Oliver Sacks comes wonderfully to life ... Exquisitely wrought, heartrending and joyous - Joyce Carol OatesA loving tribute to Sacks and to New York ... Read just 50 pages, and youll see easily enough how Hayes is Sackss logical complement - Jennifer Senior, New York Times____________________________Bill Hayes came to New York 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 citys 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 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 Hayess 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.____________________________A unique and exuberant celebration of life and love - Kirkus Reviews FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Notes Bill Hayes love affair with New York began with his arrival in 2009 following the death of his partner, finding consolation in the citys sights and people over the course of late-night ambulations. He would also fall in love with the neurologist Oliver Sacks, at the beginnings of Sacks ultimately fatal illness. The result is an intimate and exuberant portrait of Sacks, New York and the wealth of humanity Hayes encounters there. Author Biography 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. billhayes.com Review A loving tribute to Sacks and to New York ... Read just 50 pages, and youll see easily enough how Hayes is Sackss logical complement. Though possessed of different temperaments, both are alive to difference, variety, the possibilities of our rangy humanity; both are avid chroniclers of our species -- Jennifer Senior * New York Times *A beautiful memoir in which Oliver Sacks comes wonderfully to life ... Exquisitely wrought, heartrending and joyous -- Joyce Carol OatesLike New York, the city he celebrates so poignantly in this book, Bill Hayes mixes memory with desire to create a heartbreakingly gorgeous story of love, loss, and renewal -- Azar Nafisi, author of READING LOLITA IN TEHRANRemarkably poignant. Readers will find themselves wishing the two men had more time, but as Hayes makes clear, they wasted none of the time they had * Publishers Weekly *Written in heightened states of feeling that infuse every detail with meaning and transient beauty * Shelf Awareness *A unique and exuberant celebration of life and love * Kirkus Reviews *Bill Hayes has an unusual set of skills ... He is part science writer, part memoirist, part culture explainer * The New York Times *Like Patti Smiths haunting M Train, Hayes book weaves seemingly disparate threads of memory into a kind of sanctuary – a secret place where one can shake off the treasured relics of past lives and prepare to be reborn anew * San Francisco Chronicle *Hayes captures both the frenetic, exhilarating pace of New York City as well as the whimsy, fun and romance of the years he spent with Sacks * New York Post *Insomniac City is resoundingly about life – about being wide awake to possibility, to the beauty of every fleeting moment. * Oprah.com *Buy a box of tissues and pray for snow: This is the perfect weekend February read, and will have you alternately bawling and giddily clapping your hands for the lovers that may not have had the time they deserved, but certainly made the best with the time that they had * Newsweek, The Best New Book Releases *As eloquent in its silences and visuals as it is in its telling of the secrets of the heart. . . . The brilliance of Insomniac City is that almost Tolstoy-an directness and concretion of observation, both down-to-earth and downright visionary * Bay Area Reporter *Poetic and profound ... What emerges from this dual love letter is a lyrical reminder that happiness and heartache are inseparably entwined ... Insomniac City is an ineffably splendid read in its entirety, a mighty packet of pure aliveness. * Brainpickings *This beguiling brew of fascinating scientific facts and illuminating, poignant anecdotes makes Five Quarts something like blood itself: vital and pulsing with energy * Entertainment Weekly *That life permeates every page of Insomniac City, a dual love story of a powerful relationship that will shortly end but, also, of a city that is constantly reinventing itself * Counterpunch * Promotional 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. Review Quote Remarkably poignant. Readers will find themselves wishing the two men had more time, but as Hayes makes clear, they wasted none of the time they had Promotional "Headline" 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. Feature Bill Hayess columns appear regularly in the New York Times Sunday Review and his photos have appeared in Vanity Fair , NYT , the New Yorker and in Oliver Sackss posthumous book, Gratitude ; his relationship with his beloved Oliver Sacks has put him in the public eye. Details ISBN1408890615 Author Bill Hayes Pages 304 Year 2018 ISBN-10 1408890615 ISBN-13 9781408890615 Format Paperback Publication Date 2018-03-08 Media Book Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Subtitle New York, Oliver Sacks, and Me Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 616.80092 Illustrations B&W photos throughout Short Title Insomniac City Language English UK Release Date 2018-03-08 NZ Release Date 2018-03-08 AU Release Date 2018-04-30 Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:117236193;

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