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Hayes, Bill, 1961-
Hayes, Bill, 1961-
Hayes, Bill, 1961- -- Diaries.
Hayes, Bill, 1961- -- Relations with men.
Sacks, Oliver, 1933-2015.
Gay men -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography.
Essayists -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography.
Authors, American -- 21st century -- Biography.
Photographers -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography.
Neurologists -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography.
Street photography -- New York (State) -- New York.
New York (N.Y.) -- Biography.
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Insomniac City :
New
York
, Oliver, and me / Bill Hayes.
by
Hayes, Bill, 1961-
Bloomsbury, 2017.
Call #:
306.7662 H417i
Subjects
Hayes, Bill, 1961-
Hayes, Bill, 1961-
--
Diaries.
Hayes, Bill, 1961-
--
Relations with men.
Sacks, Oliver, 1933-2015.
Gay men
--
New
York
(
State
)
--
New
York
--
Biography
.
Essayists
--
New
York
(
State
)
--
New
York
--
Biography
.
Authors, American
--
21st century
--
Biography
.
Photographers
--
New
York
(
State
)
--
New
York
--
Biography
.
Neurologists
--
New
York
(
State
)
--
New
York
--
Biography
.
Street photography
--
New
York
(
State
)
--
New
York
.
New
York
(N.Y.)
--
Biography
.
ISBN:
9781620404935 (hc.)
Description:
291 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Contents:
Part I: Insomniac City
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Insomniac City
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Sleep: loss
--
Black crow
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O and I
--
On becoming a
New
Yorker
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Subway Lifer
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The summer Michael Jackson dies
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A fisherman on the subway
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A poem written on the stars
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The moving man
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For the skateboarders
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Part II: On being not dead
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The thank-you man
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The same taxi twice
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The weeping man
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On being not dead
--
On a typewriter
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At the skateboard park
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A woman who knew her way
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Driving a supermodel
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Lessons from the smoke shop
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A year in trees
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On Father's Day
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Part III: How
New
York
breaks your heart
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My afternoon with Ilona
--
His name is Raheem
--
A Monet of one's own
--
But
--
Everything that I don't have
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A pencil sharpener
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Home
--
Postscript.
Summary:
"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 exuberance - "I don't so much fear death as I do wasting life," he tells Hayes early on - is 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 seventy-five 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. Including Hayes's 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. Bill Hayes is a frequent contributor to the
New
York
Times and the author of Sleep Demons; Five Quarts; and The Anatomist: a true story of Gray's anatomy. Hayes is a photographer as well as a writer"--Provided by publisher.
Genre:
Memoirs.
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