Wow insomniax4/11/2023 It's really more of a collection of ideas, feelings, journal entries, thoughts of Bill Hayes than anything, but the book seems to be a written embodiment of his own state, so it feels extremely authentic and I never felt lost or confused as we jumped in time, space and medium. It's so well written, and yet also incredibly raw, delighting and saddening me in alternating states. Love that can unite people and bring people together, from small interactions in a skateboard park to the deep, soul touching love Bill and O experience together. And though so much will break your heart, it will ache with gladness too, for Hayes writes, sees, feels, appreciates the simple and complex beauty of human life, and articulately of the mesmerizing urban jungle that is New York, and his book is a celebration of love. Love that can unite One of the most moving and beautiful works of nonfiction I've read in some time, Insomniac City is a highly unique mini memoir and portrait of two great loves of Bill Hayes' life: Oliver Sacks and New York City. One of the most moving and beautiful works of nonfiction I've read in some time, Insomniac City is a highly unique mini memoir and portrait of two great loves of Bill Hayes' life: Oliver Sacks and New York City. 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).more 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.Īnd 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 vignettes throughout. 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 ni 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. 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.
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