{"product_id":"sleepless-nights-isbn-9780940322721","title":"Sleepless Nights","description":"In \u003ci\u003eSleepless Nights\u003c\/i\u003e a woman looks back on her life—the parade of people, the shifting background of place—and assembles a scrapbook of memories, reflections, portraits, letters, wishes, and dreams. An inspired fusion of fact and invention, this beautifully realized, hard-bitten, lyrical book is not only Elizabeth Hardwick's finest fiction but one of the outstanding contributions to American literature of the last fifty years.“[T]he literary equivalent of polished onyx.”—James Clarke, \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Brilliantly poised and confidently daring, \u003ci\u003eSleepless Nights\u003c\/i\u003e is a chin-up tightrope walk along the borderline between fiction and autobiography . . . it is graceful, laconic, and wise.\" —\u003ci\u003eNewsweek\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This original novel does everything for lost times that an irreplaceable family photograph album does—except that here, the words are worth a thousand pictures.\" —Philip Roth\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"An extraordinary and haunting book.\" —Joan Didion, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"Sleepless Nights\u003c\/i\u003e—a novel of mental weather—enchants by the scrupulousness and zip of the narrative voice, its lithe, semi-staccato descriptions and epigrammatic dash.\" —Susan Sontag, \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e“Talk about exploding expectations of narrative, character, structure in a novel. It’s such a brilliant, strange novel.” — Nicole Krauss, \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eElizabeth Hardwick\u003c\/b\u003e (1916–2007) was born in Lexington, Kentucky, and educated at the University of Kentucky and Columbia University. A recipient of a Gold Medal from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, she is the author of three novels, a biography of Herman Melville, and four collections of essays. She was a co-founder and advisory editor of \u003ci\u003eThe New York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e and contributed more than one hundred reviews, articles, reflections, and letters to the magazine. NYRB Classics publishes \u003ci\u003eSleepless Nights\u003c\/i\u003e, a novel, and \u003ci\u003eSeduction and Betrayal\u003c\/i\u003e, a study of women in literature.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eGeoffrey O’Brien\u003c\/b\u003e’s books include \u003ci\u003eThe Browser’s Ecstasy: A Meditation on Reading\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Phantom Empire: Movies in the Mind of the Twentieth Century\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eDream Time: Chapters from the Sixties\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eHe is editor in chief of the Library of America.","brand":"NYRB Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46300907241701,"sku":"NP9780940322721","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780940322721.jpg?v=1767736759","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/sleepless-nights-isbn-9780940322721","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}