Insomniac City : New York, Oliver, and me
Hayes, Bill, 1961-2017
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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"--Amazon.com.
Main title:
Insomniac City : New York, Oliver, and me / Bill Hayes.
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Imprint:
New York : Bloomsbury, 2017.
Collation:
291 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
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.
ISBN:
9781620404935
Dewey class:
974.71044092814.6
Language:
English
Subject:
Hayes, Bill, 1961-Hayes, Bill, 1961- -- DiariesHayes, Bill, 1961- -- Relations with menSacks, Oliver Wolf, 1933-2015Gay men -- New York (State) -- New York -- BiographyPhotographers -- New York (State) -- New York -- BiographyEssayists -- New York (State) -- New York -- BiographyNeurologists -- New York (State) -- New York -- BiographyStreet photography -- New York (State) -- New York
More Information:
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Beaumaris Library | Biography | 814.6 HAY | Available |
| Brighton Library | Biography | 814.6 HAY | Available |
| Sandringham Library | Biography | 814.6 HAY | In Deep Storage until mid 2020. (Set: 14 Jul 2019) |