Insomniac City: New York, Oliver Sacks, and me [Audiobook] download free by Bill Hayes
- Listen audiobook: Insomniac City: New York, Oliver Sacks, and me
- Author: Bill Hayes
- Release date: 2018/1/9
- Publisher: BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING PLC
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Biography
- ISBN: 9781408890615
- Rating: 8.33 of 10
- Votes: 647
- Review by: Mario Fallon
- Review rating: 7.58 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/9/24
- Duration: 3H44M36S in 256 kbps (60.8 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-07-20
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: AIFF, WMA, MPEG4, FLAC, MP3, WAV, MPC, Musepack (compression ISO, RAR, AZW4, ZIP)
- Total pages original book: 304
- Includes a PDF summary of 35 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 25M37S (7 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: A beautiful memoir in which Oliver Sacks comes wonderfully to life ... Exquisitely wrought, heartrending and joyous' Joyce Carol OatesBill Hayes came to New York 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 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. Filled with Hayes's 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.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Memoirs, Photographs: Collections, Individual Photographers, Neurology & Clinical Neurophysiology
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- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 11.51 USD
- Dimensions: 129x198x24mm
- Weight: 252g
- Printed by: Not Available
- Published in: London, United Kingdom
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