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The shapeless unease : a year of not sleeping / Samantha Harvey.
Van Pelt Library PR6108.A7875 Z46 2020
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Harvey, Samantha, 1975- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Harvey, Samantha, 1975-.
- Harvey, Samantha.
- Women authors, American--21st century--Biography.
- Women authors, American.
- Sleep disorders.
- Sleep--Physiological aspects.
- Sleep.
- Altered states of consciousness.
- Sleep--physiology.
- Sleep Initiation and Maintenance Disorders--physiopathology.
- Consciousness Disorders.
- Medical Subjects:
- Sleep--physiology.
- Sleep Initiation and Maintenance Disorders--physiopathology.
- Consciousness Disorders.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- 175 pages ; 20 cm
- Edition:
- First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Grove Press, 2020.
- Summary:
- "In 2016, Samantha Harvey began to lose sleep. She tried everything to appease her wakefulness: from medication to therapy, changes in her diet to changes in her living arrangements. Nothing seemed to help. The Shapeless Unease is Harvey's darkly funny and deeply intelligent anatomy of her insomnia, an immersive interior monologue of a year without one of the most basic human needs. Original and profound, and narrated with a lucid breathlessness, this is a startlingly insightful exploration of memory, writing and influence, death and the will to survive, from "this generation's Virginia Woolf" (Telegraph)"-- Provided by publisher.
- Notes:
- First published in 2020 in the United Kingdom by Jonathan Cape, an imprint of Vintage.
- ISBN:
- 9780802148827
- 0802148824
- OCLC:
- 1124335609
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