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Indlæser... Insomniac City: New York, Oliver, and Me (2017)af Bill Hayes
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Bliv medlem af LibraryThing for at finde ud af, om du vil kunne lide denne bog. Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog. A moving account of the overlap in the lives of Bill Hayes and Oliver Sacks. ( ) I was pretty skeptical about this book even before attempting it. Published about a year and a half after neurologist-author Oliver Sacks’s death, the memoir struck me as an opportunistic money grab on the part of the publishing industry and perhaps on the part of Sacks’s late-in-life partner as well. About 70 pages in, I decided I really didn’t care to read about Bill Hayes’s romantic relationship with Sacks, nor was I interested in the heretofore-unknown-to-me memoirist himself. A good part of the book is a sort of ode to New York City, not exactly a place whose praise I need or want to hear sung. I also found the fragmented and sometimes self-indulgent writing off putting. It does make me happy to think that Sacks found some personal happiness towards the end of his life, that hie was adored, but I found the appeal of the book very limited. This is a beautiful book about several things. First of all, it is a book about love - the love we find in our lives, the unexpected and overwhelming love that we feel when we meet certain people, but also the love for a city, the place where we choose to build our lives and where we feel complete. The stories of love in this book are bookended by the second theme - loss. It is the loss of his partner in the beginning of the book that makes Bill Hayes decide to move to New York. And, of course, the book finishes with the second loss, which any reader that knew and admired Oliver Sacks would be sadly expecting as the chapters moved on - his death in August 2015. Finally, by focusing on those two primordial and inevitable themes, the book becomes a book about life itself - our lives, marked by the ones we find and love, the ones we lose and mourn, and the places where we choose to be as happy as we can. It is a beautiful testament to the love between Hayes and Sacks, a touching portrait of Sacks himself in his intimacy, but also a heartfelt homage to New York - the city itself but, especially, the people that live in it, that commute in it, that work, play, suffer or wonder around its parks in insomniac nights. Highly recommended. ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
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A "celebration of what [writer and photographer] Bill Hayes calls 'the evanescent, the eavesdropped, the unexpected' of life in New York City, and an intimate glimpse of his relationship with the late [neurologist] Oliver Sacks"--Amazon.com. No library descriptions found. |
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