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Insomniac City : New York, Oliver, and me / Bill Hayes.

By: Publication details: New York : Bloomsbury, 2017.Description: 291 pages : illustrations ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 9781620404935
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 920.073 23
LOC classification:
  • CT220.5 .H39 2017
Contents:
Part I: Insomniac City -- Insomniac City -- Sleep: loss -- Black crow -- O and I -- On becoming a New Yorker -- Subway Lifer -- The summer Michael Jackson dies -- A fisherman on the subway -- A poem written on the stars -- The moving man -- For the skateboarders -- Part II: On being not dead -- The thank-you man -- The same taxi twice -- The weeping man -- On being not dead -- On a typewriter -- At the skateboard park -- A woman who knew her way -- Driving a supermodel -- Lessons from the smoke shop -- A year in trees -- On Father's Day -- Part III: How New York breaks your heart -- My afternoon with Ilona -- His name is Raheem -- A Monet of one's own -- But -- Everything that I don't have -- A pencil sharpener -- Home -- Postscript.
Summary: 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.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode
900 - 999 Hanover Public Library Shelves BIOG 920.073 HAYE (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 31906001070367

Part I: Insomniac City -- Insomniac City -- Sleep: loss -- Black crow -- O and I -- On becoming a New Yorker -- Subway Lifer -- The summer Michael Jackson dies -- A fisherman on the subway -- A poem written on the stars -- The moving man -- For the skateboarders -- Part II: On being not dead -- The thank-you man -- The same taxi twice -- The weeping man -- On being not dead -- On a typewriter -- At the skateboard park -- A woman who knew her way -- Driving a supermodel -- Lessons from the smoke shop -- A year in trees -- On Father's Day -- Part III: How New York breaks your heart -- My afternoon with Ilona -- His name is Raheem -- A Monet of one's own -- But -- Everything that I don't have -- A pencil sharpener -- Home -- Postscript.

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.

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