![]() In a montage investigation of the ‘I’, Hardwick reveals that the self cannot be separated from the places and people that color their days, and that one person is in fact the collision of many others all believing in their self-isolation as they move from cradle to grave in the beautifully tragic story of what it is to be human, all delivered through an impressive blending of fact and fiction.Īlas, the heart is not a metaphor, or at least not always a metaphor.Įlizabeth Hardwick steals my heart with every page, every perfect poetic sentence. ‘ If only one knew what to remember or pretend to remember, writes Hardwick, ‘ make a decision and what you want from the lost things will present itself.’ There is a truth in every fiction, and fiction in every truth. ![]() Often paralleling her own life (‘a well-traveled and intensely insightful writer and teacher from Kentucky who married for a time with poet Robert Lowell’ may suffice as a brief biography for the uninitiated), Sleepless Nights takes dozens of brief reflections across the narrator’s timeline spent loving, losing and living to create a poetic mosaic of a life, wielding ‘fiction’ like a box of crayons to color in the black outlines of memory. Elizabeth Hardwick’s astounding ‘novel’-or should modern times brand it with the now-popular ‘creative non-fiction’ label- Sleepless Nights is a brilliant blending of fact and fiction that assesses the ‘I’ at the heart of her story as it harnesses memory into language, language that blossoms and blooms on the page like the most gorgeous of gardens. Memory is a sly kitten, darting to and fro through the living room of our mind, appearing in flashes here then there, never in an orderly fashion and rarely giving us a perfect still-frame to assess all the details. Italo Calvino in an interview with The Paris Review Elizabeth Hardwick’s astounding ‘novel’-or should modern times brand it with the now-popular ‘creative non-fiction’ label- Sleepless Nights is a brilliant blending Novelists tell that piece of truth hidden at the bottom of every lie. Italo Calvino in an interview with The Paris Review Memory is a sly kitten, darting to and fro through the living room of our mind, appearing in flashes here then there, never in an orderly fashion and rarely giving us a perfect still-frame to assess all the details. And Sleepless Nights is the hilarious follow-up novel all about what happens beyond the happy ever after.įalling in love with another person is easy, making a new one is where things get complicated.Novelists tell that piece of truth hidden at the bottom of every lie. right? They'd better because the path between falling in love and those first few baby steps is littered with obstacles.įeaturing a hilarious cast of characters including an overbearing mother-in-law, a terrifying midwife and at least one chorus of mating humpback whales, Love. It's obviously a terrifying prospect for a newly married couple, but as long as they stick together they'll be just fine. Just ask Jamie and Laura Newman, who (thanks to a rather relaxed attitude to contraception) find themselves about to have a baby. Sometimes, the hardest part of becoming a parent is keeping a straight face. books are being published in a longer format with more of the love story, more of Laura and Jamie's ups and downs and more of the laugh-out-loud hilarious moments that fans have come to know and love. And Sleepless Nights he became one of the bestselling ebook authors of 2012.
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