Insomniac City : New York, Oliver, and me
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Insomniac City : New York, Oliver, and me
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- Insomniac City : New York, Oliver, and me
- 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
- Biography type
- collective biography
- Cataloging source
- CGP
- Dewey number
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- 920.073
- B
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Target audience
- adult
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