{"product_id":"the-shapeless-unease-a-year-of-not-sleeping-paperback","title":"The Shapeless Unease: A Year of Not Sleeping - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSamantha Harvey\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis genre-defying debut memoir by Betty Trask Prize winner, Samantha Harvey, weaves a tapestry of confessional anguish, flash fiction, cathartic poetry, and feverish observations on politics and psychology in a transcendent search for reality and truth.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn 2016, Samantha Harvey began to lose sleep. She tried everything to appease her wakefulness: from medication to therapy, changes in her diet to changes in her living arrangements. Nothing seemed to help.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Shapeless Unease\u003c\/i\u003e is Harvey's darkly funny and deeply intelligent anatomy of her insomnia, an immersive interior monologue of a year without one of the most basic human needs. Original and profound, and narrated with a lucid breathlessness, this is a startlingly insightful exploration of memory, writing and influence, death and the will to survive, from \"this generation's Virginia Woolf\" (\u003ci\u003eTelegraph\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSamantha Harvey\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Wilderness\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAll Is Song\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDear Thief\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Western Wind\u003c\/i\u003e. Her work has been longlisted for the Bailey's Prize and the Man Booker, and finalist for the James Tait Black Award, the Orange Prize, the Guardian First Book Award and the Walter Scott Prize. \u003ci\u003eThe Wilderness\u003c\/i\u003e won the Betty Trask Award in 2009. She teaches Creative Writing at Bath Spa University.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 192\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 7.3 x 4.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 18, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51789203702048,"sku":"9780802148834","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/0a03adeb4ed22a58e5bff99af431ce54.webp?v=1780665540","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-shapeless-unease-a-year-of-not-sleeping-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}