Above all, here is prose blurring into poetry, language to lose - and perhaps to find - yourself in. Rediscover a lost American classic: Sleepless Nights, a kaleidoscopic scrapbook of one womans memories. In Sleepless Nights a woman looks back on her lifethe parade of people, the shifting background of placeand assembles a scrapbook of memories, reflections, portraits, letters, wishes, and dreams. In Sleepless Nights a woman looks back on her life-the parade of people, the shifting background of place-and assembles a scrapbook of memories, reflections, portraits, letters, wishes, and dreams.
So does Elizabeth Hardwicks Sleepless Nights (1979). Here are luminous sketches of characters she has met that illuminate the era’s racism, sexism, and poverty. As with many classic novels, Speedboat makes us question what a novel is. 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’. It is more than the story of a life: it is Elizabeth Hardwick’s experience of womanhood in the twentieth century. I am alone here in New York, no longer a we …įirst published in 1979, Sleepless Nights is a unique collage of fiction and memoir, letters and essays, portraits and dreams. 'I hate the glossary, the concordance of truth that some have about my real life,' she complained.
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‘A series of fleeting images and memories … united by the high intelligence and beauty of Hardwick’s prose.’ - Sally Rooney Sleepless Nights Hazel Rowley Throughout the wretched summer of 1973, while the Watergate scandal raged, Elizabeth Hardwick was in the limelight as the publicly aban- doned wife of the man often touted as America's foremost poet.
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