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Title: Sleepless Nights (New York Review Books Classics) by Elizabeth Hardwick, Geoffrey O'Brien ISBN: 0-940322-72-2 Publisher: New York Review of Books Pub. Date: 13 September, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.33 (6 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Evocative, beautiful, thin
Comment: This small novella from NYRB is a much-lauded work by Elizabeth Hardwick from the mid-Seventies; essentially plotless, it's a work of memory (both Proust and Tenessee Williams seem to haunt these pages... as does, oddly, Djuna Barnes) that encompasses autobiographical material from Hardwick's life growing up in Lexington, Kentucky, at Columbia as a graduate student in NYC, and in Boston as the partner of Robert Lowell (though he is never named in the narrative). The prose is often gorgeous (although there are times when it does get a bit NEW YORKER-precious in its sensory observations); the narrative passes much like a very vivid dream or a hallucination, so that though there is little to follow it will stay with you for months afterwards. This new NYRB edition comes with a spectacularly beautiful cover that suggests the hyperreal quality of the narrative, and a vacuous preface that tells you almost nothing about the book .
Rating: 5
Summary: Simply incredible...
Comment: I can really only reiterate what the last reviewer stated. This is one of the three or four books I pull off the bookshelf constantly to reread. Hardwick is a remarkable stylist and can evoke in a few pages (if not lines!) what it would take other writers whole novels to achieve. The section on Billie Holliday is one of the most beautiful things I've ever read. This is the book that made me want to write.
Rating: 5
Summary: A gorgeously austere book about memory and loss
Comment: Part fiction, part autobiography, part a collection of lovely pensees on literature and life, this exquisite short novel moves fluidly between the narrator's Kentucky past and her New York present, with stops along the way in Europe, Maine, Boston, and elswhere. Employing a spare, pared-down prose of great beauty and oringinality, Hardwick approaches her subject--memory and the transformations we work upon it, and it upon us--with great restraint, bringing the novel's people and places vividly to life with an odd, knotty phrase or unexpected choice of word. Rather than focus with gushing self-indulgence on her own experience in the manner of contemporary tell-all memoirs, the author is more often probing the lives of the ignored and downtrodden she has known--cleaning ladies and laborers, small-town prostitutes and impoverished radicals, failed writers and homeless piano teachers. Hardwick broods over these small, burdened, often overlooked lives with a wry, unsentimental tenderness and a gentle pessimism. I can't tell you how often I've picked up this book since I first read it just to savor a paragraph or two or its gorgeously austere prose.
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Title: The Pilgrim Hawk: A Love Story (New York Review Books Classics) by Glenway Wescott, Michael Cunningham ISBN: 0940322560 Publisher: New York Review of Books Pub. Date: January, 2001 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Seduction and Betrayal: Women and Literature (New York Review Books Classics) by Elizabeth Hardwick, Joan Didion ISBN: 0940322781 Publisher: New York Review of Books Pub. Date: 13 September, 2001 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: A Way of Life, Like Any Other (New York Review Books Classics) by Darcy O'Brien, Seamus Heaney ISBN: 094032279X Publisher: New York Review of Books Pub. Date: 09 August, 2001 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: American Fictions by Elizabeth Hardwick ISBN: 0375754822 Publisher: Modern Library Pub. Date: 02 November, 1999 List Price(USD): $19.00 |
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Title: The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll (New York Review Books Classics) by Alvaro Mutis, Edith Grossman, Francisco Goldman ISBN: 0940322919 Publisher: New York Review of Books Pub. Date: 17 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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