The Resource Insomniac City : New York, Oliver, and me, Bill Hayes
Insomniac City : New York, Oliver, and me, Bill Hayes
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The item Insomniac City : New York, Oliver, and me, Bill Hayes represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library.
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- Summary
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- "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. 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). Insomniac City 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."--Jacket
- A "celebration of what [writer and photographer] 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 [neurologist] Oliver Sacks"--Amazon.com
- Language
- eng
- Label
- Insomniac City : New York, Oliver, and me
- Title
- Insomniac City
- Title remainder
- New York, Oliver, and me
- Statement of responsibility
- Bill Hayes
- Subject
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- Neurologists -- New York (State) | New York -- Biography
- trueAuthors -- Biography
- trueLife stories -- Facing adversity | Coping with death
- Hayes, Bill, 1961- -- Diaries
- trueInterpersonal relations
- trueSacks, Oliver W
- New York (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs -- Portraits
- trueMen/men relations
- Hayes, Bill, 1961- -- Relations with men
- trueLoss (Psychology)
- New York (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs -- 21st century
- trueLife stories -- Relationships | Couples
- Photographers -- New York (State) | New York -- Biography
- trueHayes, Bill, 1961-
- trueLife stories -- Facing adversity | Dealing with death
- Street photography -- New York (State) | New York
- Essayists -- New York (State) | New York -- Biography
- trueSpouses of people with cancer
- Gay men -- New York (State) | New York -- Biography
- Autobiographies
- trueCity life
- trueSacks, Oliver, 1933-2015
- trueAutobiographies and memoirs
- Language
- eng
- Summary
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- "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. 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). Insomniac City 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."--Jacket
- A "celebration of what [writer and photographer] 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 [neurologist] Oliver Sacks"--Amazon.com
- Summary
- The author of Sleep Demons presents a celebration of New York City life and intimate glimpses into his relationship with the late Oliver Sacks, describing how in the aftermath of a partner's death the author moved to the city and unexpectedly fell in love on the eve of Sacks' battle with cancer
- Biography type
- collective biography
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 10552557
- Cataloging source
- CGP
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1961-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Hayes, Bill
- Dewey number
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- 920.073
- B
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Hayes, Bill
- Hayes, Bill
- Hayes, Bill
- Sacks, Oliver
- Autobiographies
- Gay men
- Authors
- Photographers
- Essayists
- Neurologists
- Street photography
- New York (N.Y.)
- New York (N.Y.)
- Target audience
- adult
- http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/titleRemainder
- New York, Oliver, and me
- Label
- Insomniac City : New York, Oliver, and me, Bill Hayes
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
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- text
- still image
- Content type code
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- txt
- sti
- Content type MARC source
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- rdacontent
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 000059624902
- Dimensions
- 22 cm.
- Extent
- 291 pages
- Isbn
- 9781620404935
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)971246712
- Label
- Insomniac City : New York, Oliver, and me, Bill Hayes
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
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- text
- still image
- Content type code
-
- txt
- sti
- Content type MARC source
-
- rdacontent
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 000059624902
- Dimensions
- 22 cm.
- Extent
- 291 pages
- Isbn
- 9781620404935
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)971246712
Subject
- trueAuthors -- Biography
- Autobiographies
- trueAutobiographies and memoirs
- trueCity life
- Essayists -- New York (State) | New York -- Biography
- Gay men -- New York (State) | New York -- Biography
- trueHayes, Bill, 1961-
- Hayes, Bill, 1961- -- Diaries
- Hayes, Bill, 1961- -- Relations with men
- trueInterpersonal relations
- trueLife stories -- Facing adversity | Coping with death
- trueLife stories -- Facing adversity | Dealing with death
- trueLife stories -- Relationships | Couples
- trueLoss (Psychology)
- trueMen/men relations
- Neurologists -- New York (State) | New York -- Biography
- New York (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs -- 21st century
- New York (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs -- Portraits
- Photographers -- New York (State) | New York -- Biography
- trueSacks, Oliver W
- trueSacks, Oliver, 1933-2015
- trueSpouses of people with cancer
- Street photography -- New York (State) | New York
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