{"product_id":"insomniac-city-9781408890615","title":"Insomniac City","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e____________________________\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eA 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.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e____________________________\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e''A beautiful memoir in which Oliver Sacks comes wonderfully to life ... Exquisitely wrought, heartrending and joyous'' \u003c\/b\u003e- Joyce Carol Oates\u003cb\u003e''A loving tribute to Sacks and to New York ... Read just 50 pages, and you'll see easily enough how Hayes is Sacks's logical complement'' \u003c\/b\u003e- Jennifer Senior, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e____________________________\u003c\/b\u003eBill 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 city's incessant rhythms, the sight of the Empire State Building agai\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA loving tribute to Sacks and to New York ... Read just 50 pages, and you’ll see easily enough how Hayes is Sacks’s 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 *\u003cbr\u003eA beautiful memoir in which Oliver Sacks comes wonderfully to life ... Exquisitely wrought, heartrending and joyous -- Joyce Carol Oates\u003cbr\u003eLike 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 TEHRAN\u003cbr\u003eRemarkably 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 *\u003cbr\u003eWritten in heightened states of feeling that infuse every detail with meaning and transient beauty * Shelf Awareness *\u003cbr\u003eA unique and exuberant celebration of life and love * Kirkus Reviews *\u003cbr\u003eBill Hayes has an unusual set of skills ... He is part science writer, part memoirist, part culture explainer * The New York Times *\u003cbr\u003eLike Patti Smith's haunting \u003ci\u003eM Train\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 *\u003cbr\u003eHayes 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 *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eInsomniac City\u003c\/i\u003e is resoundingly about life – about being wide awake to possibility, to the beauty of every fleeting moment. * Oprah.com *\u003cbr\u003eBuy 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' *\u003cbr\u003eAs eloquent in its silences and visuals as it is in its telling of the secrets of the heart. . . . The brilliance of \u003ci\u003eInsomniac City\u003c\/i\u003e is that almost Tolstoy-an directness and concretion of observation, both down-to-earth and downright visionary * Bay Area Reporter *\u003cbr\u003ePoetic and profound ... What emerges from this dual love letter is a lyrical reminder that happiness and heartache are inseparably entwined ... \u003ci\u003eInsomniac City\u003c\/i\u003e is an ineffably splendid read in its entirety, a mighty packet of pure aliveness. * Brainpickings *\u003cbr\u003eThis beguiling brew of fascinating scientific facts and illuminating, poignant anecdotes makes \u003ci\u003eFive Quarts\u003c\/i\u003e something like blood itself: vital and pulsing with energy * Entertainment Weekly *\u003cbr\u003eThat life permeates every page of \u003ci\u003eInsomniac City\u003c\/i\u003e, a dual love story of a powerful relationship that will shortly end but, also, of a city that is constantly reinventing itself * Counterpunch *","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48866827075927,"sku":"9781408890615","price":11.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781408890615.jpg?v=1722280175","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/insomniac-city-9781408890615","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}