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Sleepless Nights by Elizabeth Hardwick (Paperback, 2019)

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Delve into the literary depths with Elizabeth Hardwick's "Sleepless Nights," a paperback that promises a rewarding read. Published by Faber & Faber in 2019, this book stands at 200mm tall and 133mm wide, making it a comfortable size for reading at home or on-the-go. With 144 pages, it offers a substantial exploration of its topics, which include literature and books. Crafted for the English-speaking reader, this piece weighs a mere 130g, making it an effortlessly portable companion for your daily commute or an evening of unwinding. The book's ISBN 9780571352300 ensures authenticity, so you can be confident in your selection for your personal library or as a thoughtful gift for a bibliophile.

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'A series of fleeting images and memories ... united by the high intelligence and beauty of Hardwick's prose.' - Sally Rooney 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.