The Shapeless Unease: A Year of Not Sleeping

ISBN-13: 9781529112092 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 192 str.

Samantha Harvey

Opis

'Easily one of the truest and best books I've read about what it's like to be alive now, in this country' Max PorterSleep. Then you think about it all the time, and the less you have the more you think about it. For Samantha Harvey, extreme sleep deprivation resulted in a raw clarity about life itself.

Recenzje

[A] remarkable book... [The Shapeless Unease is] an extraordinary journey, but it's also mesmerising. Harvey writes with hypnotic power and poetic precision about - well, about everything: grief, pain, memory, family, the night sky, a lake at sunset, what it means to dream and what it means to suffer and survive. Christina Patterson Mail on Sunday

O autorze

Samantha Harvey is the author of the novels The Wilderness, All Is Song, Dear Thief and The Western Wind and a work of non-fiction, The Shapeless Unease: A Year of Not Sleeping. Her work has been longlisted for the Booker Prize, and shortlisted for the James Tait Black Award, the Women's Prize, the Guardian First Book Award and the Walter Scott Prize. The Wilderness was awarded the Betty Trask Prize. She is a tutor on the MA course in Creative Writing at Bath Spa University.