β Scribed by Hayes, Bill
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*"If you are lonely or bone-tired or blue, you need only come down from your perch and step outside. New Yorkβwhich is to say, New Yorkersβwill take care of you."*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 exuberanceβ"I don't so much fear death as I do wasting life," he tells Hayes early onβis captured in funny and touching vignettes throughout....
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