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.
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買這本書的初衷是Bill Hayes在舊金山住瞭多年後搬去紐約，彌補我沒有搬去紐約的小遺憾。開始以為隻是寫他在紐約療傷時的隨筆，沒想到最後卻是一個but。Bill也是一個people watcher和feeling person，即便有時隻是流水一樣的敘事，也是很細膩。
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。
评分買這本書的初衷是Bill Hayes在舊金山住瞭多年後搬去紐約，彌補我沒有搬去紐約的小遺憾。開始以為隻是寫他在紐約療傷時的隨筆，沒想到最後卻是一個but。Bill也是一個people watcher和feeling person，即便有時隻是流水一樣的敘事，也是很細膩。
评分矯情，抽瘋，自我矛盾，感性得腦殘。
评分矯情，抽瘋，自我矛盾，感性得腦殘。
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