Insomniac City: New York, Oliver Sacks, and Me,New

Insomniac City: New York, Oliver Sacks, and Me,New

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Amazons Best Biographies and Memoirs of 2017 ListThis touching memoir of the late neurologist Oliver Sacks, by a photographer and writer with whom he fell in love near the end of his life, turns a story of death into a celebration. The New Yorker'A beautifully written onceinalifetime book, about love, about life, soul, and the wonderful loving genius Oliver Sacks, and New York, and laughter and all of creation.' Anne LamottBill Hayes came to New York City in 2009 with a oneway ticket and only the vaguest idea of how he would get by. But, at fortyeight 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 citys 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 latenight strolls with his camera.And he unexpectedly fell in love again, with his friend and neighbor, the writer and neurologist Oliver Sacks, whose exuberance'I dont so much fear death as I do wasting life,' he tells Hayes early onis captured in funny and touching vignettes throughout. What emerges is a portrait of Sacks at his most personal and endearing, from falling in love for the first time at age seventyfive to facing illness and death (Sacks died of cancer in August 2015). Insomniac City is both a meditation on grief and a celebration of life. Filled with Hayess distinctive street photos of everyday New Yorkers, the book is a love song to the city and to all who have felt the particular magic and solace it offers.

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