03181cam a2200349 4500 761288310 TxAuBib 20230213120000.0 ||||||s2017||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781620404959 1620404958 B01HV1QMA2 Amazon b3f88564-5fc7-4864-9513-5185e9a815c4 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 2901058 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Hayes, Bill. Insomniac City [Libby] : New York, Oliver Sacks, and Me. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2017. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 8MB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read, Filesize: 7329kB. Biography & Autobiography. Literary Criticism. Photography. Nonfiction. HTML:<b>Amazon's Best Biographies and Memoirs of the Year List</b><br /> <b><br /> A moving celebration of what Bill Hayes calls "the evanescent, the eavesdropped, the unexpected" of life in New York City, and an intimate glimpse of his relationship with the late Oliver Sacks.</b><br /> <b><br /> "A beautifully written once-in-a-lifetime book, about love, about life, soul, and the wonderful loving genius Oliver Sacks, and New York, and laughter and all of creation."—Anne Lamott</b><i><br /></i>Bill Hayes came to New York City in 2009 with a one-way ticket and only the vaguest idea of how he would get by. But, at forty-eight years old, having spent decades in San Francisco, he craved change. Grieving over the death of his partner, he quickly discovered the profound consolations of the city's incessant rhythms, the sight of the Empire State Building against the night sky, and New Yorkers themselves, kindred souls that Hayes, a lifelong insomniac, encountered on late-night strolls with his camera.<br /> <br /> And he unexpectedly fell in love again, with his friend and neighbor, the writer and neurologist Oliver Sacks, whose exuberance—"I don't so much fear death as I do wasting life," he tells Hayes early on—is captured in funny and touching vignettes throughout. What emerges is a portrait of Sacks at his most personal and endearing, from falling in love for the first time at age seventy-five to facing illness and death (Sacks died of cancer in August 2015). <i>Insomniac City</i> is both a meditation on grief and a celebration of life. Filled with Hayes's distinctive street photos of everyday New Yorkers, the book is a love song to the city and to all who have felt the particular magic and solace it offers. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2023-04-13 10:07:10. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=b3f88564-5fc7-4864-9513-5185e9a815c4&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=b3f88564-5fc7-4864-9513-5185e9a815c4&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=b3f88564-5fc7-4864-9513-5185e9a815c4&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read) RV8