Sleepless Nights

Name: Sleepless Nights
Brand: Tantor Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Elizabeth Hardwick
ISBN: 9781666178883

Author: Elizabeth Hardwick

Narrator: Erin Ruth Walker

Unabridged: 5 hr 25 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 01/25/2022

Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction, Nonfiction, Biography & Autobiography

Synopsis

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. An inspired fusion of fact and invention, this beautifully realized, hard-bitten, lyrical book is not only Elizabeth Hardwick's finest fiction but one of the outstanding contributions to American literature of the last fifty years.

About Elizabeth Hardwick

Elizabeth Hardwick (1916-2007) was born in Lexington, Kentucky, and educated at the University of Kentucky and Columbia University. A recipient of a Gold Medal from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, she is the author of three novels, a biography of Herman Melville, and four collections of essays. She was a cofounder and advisory editor of the New York Review of Books and contributed more than one hundred reviews, articles, reflections, and letters to the magazine.

Reviews

Goodreads review by s.penkevich on February 02, 2021

Novelists tell that piece of truth hidden at the bottom of every lie. -Italo Calvino in an interview with The Paris Review Memory is a sly kitten, darting to and fro through the living room of our mind, appearing in flashes here then there, never in an orderly fashion and rarely giving us a perfect st......more

Goodreads review by Paul on February 10, 2021

Elizabeth Hardwick’s short memoir/novel has pages about Billie Holiday, and jazz clubs, and more pages on some American Communists, and yes, we’re in New York, which is never ever dull, and plus, all my GR friends adore it – so, in the words of one beloved tv personality, what could possibly go wron......more

Goodreads review by Adam on June 11, 2019

The missing link between Sebald and the Cheever diaries - beautifully observed vignettes (some of the descriptions are extraordinary) that ebb and flow into something of a memoirish novel, complete with subplots. I would add in David Markson as well. Hardwick is very well-read, and the book brims wi......more

Goodreads review by Jonathan on November 29, 2014

So this is some breathtakingly good writing. Distilled, focused and filled with some of the most unexpectedly perfect analogies/metaphors/similes I have read. Aubrey, Brian and Garima have written wonderful reviews already, and there is much out there in the WWW to give you more details about this s......more