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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 racis

Sleepless Nights

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    A Paperback / softback by Elizabeth Hardwick, Eimear McBride

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      Publisher Faber & Faber
      Published 4 July 2019
      ISBN-13 9780571346998
      978-0571346998
      ISBN-10 0571346995
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      Fiction Contemporary Fiction Non Fiction ELT & Literary Studies Literary studies: fiction

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      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 racis

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