A woman gets up in the middle of a wintry night and starts baking a cake while her lover sleeps upstairs. When it's time for her to take the cake out of the oven, we have read a story of romance and death. The narrator of this novel was widowed years ago and is trying to find new passion. But the me
Sleepless Nights
β Scribed by Elizabeth Hardwick
- Publisher
- New York Review Books
- Year
- 1979
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 85 KB
- Edition
- New York Review Books (2011)
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1590174380
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
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Paperback, 128 pages
Published 1979
New York Review Books (2011)
Introduction by: Geoffrey OβBrien (2001)
In "Sleepless Nights" a woman looks back on her lifeβthe parade of people, the shifting background of placeβand 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 Hardwickβs finest fiction but one of the outstanding contributions to American literature of the last fifty years.
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