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Author Hayes, Bill, 1961- author, photographer.

Title Insomniac City : New York, Oliver, and me / Bill Hayes.

Publication Info. New York : Bloomsbury, 2017.

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Location Call No. Status
 Cheshire Public Library - Adult Department Lower Level  BIOGRAPHY HAYES    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Biographies  B HAYES    Check Shelf
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  B HAYES, BILL    Check Shelf
 Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Biography  B HAYES    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Biography  B-HAYES HAY    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  B HAYES, B.    Check Shelf
 Plainville Public Library - Non Fiction  B HAYES    Check Shelf
 Rocky Hill, Cora J. Belden Library - Adult Department  B HAYES    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Biographies  B HAYES BILL H    Check Shelf
 Windsor Locks Public Library - Adult Department  B HAYES    Check Shelf

Description 291 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Summary 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.
Contents Part I: Insomniac City -- Insomniac City -- Sleep: loss -- Black crow -- O and I -- On becoming a New Yorker -- Subway Lifer -- The summer Michael Jackson dies -- A fisherman on the subway -- A poem written on the stars -- The moving man -- For the skateboarders -- Part II: On being not dead -- The thank-you man -- The same taxi twice -- The weeping man -- On being not dead -- On a typewriter -- At the skateboard park -- A woman who knew her way -- Driving a supermodel -- Lessons from the smoke shop -- A year in trees -- On Father's Day -- Part III: How New York breaks your heart -- My afternoon with Ilona -- His name is Raheem -- A Monet of one's own -- But -- Everything that I don't have -- A pencil sharpener -- Home -- Postscript.
Subject Hayes, Bill, 1961-
Hayes, Bill, 1961- -- Diaries.
Hayes, Bill, 1961- -- Relations with men.
Sacks, Oliver, 1933-2015.
New York (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs -- 21st century.
New York (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs -- Portraits.
Gay men -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography.
Authors -- Biography.
Photographers -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography.
Essayists -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography.
Neurologists -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography.
Street photography -- New York (State) -- New York.
Genre/Form Autobiographies.
Biographies.
ISBN 1620404931 (hardcover) : $27.00
9781620404935 (hardcover) : $27.00
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