{"product_id":"sleepless-a-memoir-of-insomnia-paperback","title":"Sleepless: A Memoir of Insomnia - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMarie Darrieussecq\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003ePenny Hueston\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA restless inquiry into the cultural and psychic sources of insomnia by one of contemporary French literature's most elegant voices.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePlagued by insomnia for twenty years, Marie Darrieussecq turns her attention to the causes, implications, and consequences of sleeplessness: a nocturnal suffering that culminates at 4 a.m. and then defines the next day. \"Insomniac mornings are dead mornings,\" she observes. Prevented from falling asleep by her dread of exhaustion the next day, Darrieussecq turns to hypnosis, psychoanalysis, alcohol, pills, and meditation. Her entrapment within this spiraling anguish prompts her inspired, ingenious search across literature, geopolitical history, psychoanalysis, and her own experience to better understand where insomnia comes from and what it might mean. There are those, she writes, in Rwanda, whose vivid memories of genocide leave them awake and transfixed by complete horror; there is the insomnia of the unhoused, who have nowhere to put their heads down. The hyperconnection of urban professional life transforms her bedroom from a haven to a dormant electrified node. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRanging between autobiography, clinical observation, and criticism, \u003ci\u003eSleepless\u003c\/i\u003e is a graceful, inventive meditation by one of the most daring, inventive novelists writing today.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eMarie Darrieussecq is one of the leading voices in contemporary French literature. Her first novel, \u003ci\u003ePig Tales\u003c\/i\u003e, was a finalist for France's prestigious Prix Goncourt in 1996 and became an international bestseller. Her 2013 novel \u003ci\u003eMen: A Novel of Cinema and Desire\u003c\/i\u003e received the Prix M馘icis, and her luminous, voluptuous portrait of the artist Paula Modersohn-Becker, \u003ci\u003eBeing Here Is Everything\u003c\/i\u003e, was published in English by Semiotext(e) in 2017. Darrieussecq has also worked as a translator and a psychoanalyst.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 288\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 8.2 x 5.7 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 05, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51764600996128,"sku":"9781635901771","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/b3a73a1e19ab6093eb91d9225bedb566.webp?v=1780253222","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/sleepless-a-memoir-of-insomnia-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}