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Sleepless Nights
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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.
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Brittany Quinn
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Clara Mundy
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“Sentences like you wouldn’t believe.
“Of course these things are not *mine*. I think they are usually spoken of as *ours*, that tea bag of a word which steeps in the conditional.”
“Still, I remember the old race track, before Keeneland was built, before the barns burned and the horses screamed all night in their prisons.”
“The sheer enormity of her vices. The outrageousness of them. For the grand destruction one must be worthy. Her ruthless talent and the opulent devastation.”
“Some men define themselves by women although they appear to believe it is quite the opposite; to believe that it is *she*, rather than themselves, who is being filed away, tagged, named at last like a quivering cell under a microscope.”
“When I said to her, How do you propose to make a life on these corpses? She said, I can only try.””
Aimee Marie
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“I've read this book from cover to cover, yet I still can't grasp what Hardwick was discussing. I generally appreciate vignette-style stream-of-consciousness prose, but I found myself wanting this to wrap up within thirty pages. I just didn't connect with the author's intention. However, I can still appreciate the beautiful descriptions of America in the 1950s to 1970s that are sprinkled throughout the text. Joan Didion's precision and writing style might have enhanced my enjoyment; if she had written it, I believe it would have been much more digestible and probably a four to five star read 🙈”
“I love streamless thought pieces. This one just needs to grow on me.”
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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 co-founder and advisory editor of The New York Review of Books and contributed more than one hundred reviews, articles, reflections, and letters to the magazine. NYRB Classics publishes Sleepless Nights, a novel, and Seduction and Betrayal, a study of women in literature.
Geoffrey O’Brien is Editor in Chief of the Library of America. His latest books are The Fall of the House of Walworth and Early Autumn. (May 2012)
Geoffrey O’Brien is Editor in Chief of the Library of America. His latest books are The Fall of the House of Walworth and Early Autumn. (May 2012)
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