Sleepless Nights

Author(s): Elizabeth Hardwick

Fiction | Feminist

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.


Product Information

Elizabeth Hardwick (b. 1916) has been a frequent contributor to The Partisan Review, The New Yorker, and The New York Review of Books, which she helped found in 1963. Her books include the novels The Simple Truth, The Ghostly Lover, and Sleepless Nights, the essay collection A View of My Own, and The Selected Letters of William James, for which she acted as editor. Geoffrey O'Brien is Editor in Chief of the Library of America. He is the author, most recently, of Sonata for Jukebox: An Autobiography of My Ears and Red Sky Cafe. (October 2008)

General Fields

  • : 9780940322721
  • : New York Review Books
  • : New York Review Books
  • : 0.148
  • : March 2001
  • : 203mm X 127mm X 13mm
  • : United States
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Elizabeth Hardwick
  • : 144
  • : near fine
  • : 813.54
  • : English
  • : BC