Insomniac City : New York, Oliver, and me

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Label

Insomniac City : New York, Oliver, and me

Title remainder

New York, Oliver, and me

Statement of responsibility

Bill Hayes

Creator

• trueHayes, Bill, 1961-

Author

• trueHayes, Bill, 1961-

Photographer

• trueHayes, Bill, 1961-

Subject

• trueCity life
• Essayists -- New York (State) | New York -- Biography
• Gay men -- New York (State) | New York -- Biography
• Hayes, Bill, 1961-
• Hayes, Bill, 1961- -- Diaries
• Hayes, Bill, 1961- -- Relations with men
• trueInterpersonal relations
• 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
• Sacks, Oliver, 1933-2015
• trueSpouses of people with cancer
• Street photography -- New York (State) | New York
• Autobiographies
• trueAuthors -- Biography

Genre

• truePortraits
• trueBiography
• trueDiaries

Language

eng

Summary

• "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

Tone

• trueMoving

Writing style

• trueCandid

Biography type

collective biography

Cataloging source

CGP

Dewey number

• 920.073
• B

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary form

non fiction

Target audience

adult