![]() ![]() Nevertheless, there's no denying the poetic style and her ability to capture a mood and people from her life in ways that seem to belie the suggestion that this is some fictional recreation. This is clearly a literary work, for people who are very well read - many of the allusions were lost on me, which I found a touch frustrating. The lack of apparent structure, the flitting between one topic and another is a reflection of the writer's meandering mind, but also a reflection of the energetic chaos of the city where the book is largely based. An inspired fusion of fact and invention, this beautifully realized, hard-bitten, lyrical book is not only Elizabeth Hardwicks finest fiction but one of. There are also some incredibly detailed characters here, especially Billie Holiday, which is the highlight of the book. 'I hate the glossary, the concordance of truth that some have about my real life,' she complained. First published in 1979, Sleepless Nights is a unique collage of. 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. Escaping her childhood home of Kentucky, the narrator arrives at a bohemian hotel in Manhattan filled. It is more than the story of a life: it is Elizabeth Hardwick's experience of womanhood in the twentieth century. united by the high intelligence and beauty of Hardwick's prose.'Rediscover a lost American classic: Sleepless Nights, a kaleidoscopic scrapbook of one woman's memories, here reissued 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. There are metafictional touches here, where she makes it clear she's generating a semi-fictional world out of reality. Sally Rooney: 'A series of fleeting images and memories. ![]() What's clear by the end, though, is that, despite the passive voice, she is deeply touched, often wounded, by the many relationships she has, but tries hard to suppress these feelings. Synopsis: 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. Many of her interactions are with men, where she appears more like prey than an equal, and woman-as-victim is a running them in this book, as if this is simply how things are. In the main, she talks in a passive voice, as if some anthropologist discovering the hidden, strange, vivid characters around her. In this semi auto-biographical memoir, Hardwick recounts the varied people she met in her life, largely in New York. ![]()
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