PublishedNew York Review Books, May 2001 |
ISBN9780940322721 |
FormatSoftcover, 144 pages |
Dimensions20.2cm × 1cm × 12.7cm |
Kentucky race tracks, 52nd-Street jazz clubs in the 1940s, Billie Holiday in Harlem, summers in Maine and winters in Manhattan- such is the terrain of this lyrical and powerful novel about the past and present, about the life of the streets, about love, and the inner life of an American woman.
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.
