发表于2024-05-09
Insomniac City 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书
图书标签: 美国 纽约 美国文学 OliverSacks 非虚构 小说 同志 传记
Bill Hayes came to New York City in 2009 with a one-way ticket and only the vaguest idea of how he would get by. But, at forty-eight years old, having spent decades in San Francisco, he craved change. Grieving over the death of his partner, he quickly discovered the profound consolations of the city's incessant rhythms, the sight of the Empire State Building against the night sky, and New Yorkers themselves, kindred souls that Hayes, a lifelong insomniac, encountered on late-night strolls with his camera.
And he unexpectedly fell in love again, with his friend and neighbor, the writer and neurologist Oliver Sacks, whose exuberance--"I don't so much fear death as I do wasting life," he tells Hayes early on--is captured in funny and touching vignettes throughout. What emerges is a portrait of Sacks at his most personal and endearing, from falling in love for the first time at age seventy-five to facing illness and death (Sacks died of cancer in August 2015). Insomniac City is both a meditation on grief and a celebration of life. Filled with Hayes's distinctive street photos of everyday New Yorkers, the book is a love song to the city and to all who have felt the particular magic and solace it offers.
买这本书的初衷是Bill Hayes在旧金山住了多年后搬去纽约,弥补我没有搬去纽约的小遗憾。开始以为只是写他在纽约疗伤时的随笔,没想到最后却是一个but。Bill也是一个people watcher和feeling person,即便有时只是流水一样的叙事,也是很细腻。
评分很温柔很乐观很积极,但是还是忍不住落泪 / notes from the journal从Billy遇见Oliver开始出现,到Oliver离世结束
评分若單純以自傳角度來說,與Joan Didion 等人比,當然還是有距離。但Bill 筆下紐約,把每個公園和角落發生如此平平無奇的人事物都變得如此溫柔。他的愛情,和他文筆一樣,很特別,和美麗。
评分You leave it, you miss it and you know you love it from the start.
评分Intrigued me, completely lost me in the middle, but then moved me deeply towards the end.
Insomniac City 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书