Sleepless Nights (novel)

Sleepless Nights is a 1979 novel by American novelist and critic Elizabeth Hardwick.[1] Writing for the New York Times, Lauren Groff referred to the book as "[...] brilliant, brittle and strange".[2]

Sleepless Nights
First edition (US)
AuthorElizabeth Hardwick
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
GenreLiterary fiction
PublisherRandom House (US)
Weidenfeld and Nicolson (UK)
Publication date
1979

The novel contains autobiographical elements.[3] Sigrid Nunez drew inspiration from the book while writing her novel The Friend.[4]

References

  1. O'Brien, Geoffrey (20 September 2001). "On 'Sleepless Nights'". The New York Review of Books. Retrieved 24 July 2019.
  2. Groff, Lauren (26 July 2019). "In Praise of Elizabeth Hardwick". The New York Times. Retrieved 24 July 2019.
  3. McBride, Eimear (29 June 2019). "Novel, letter, essay, memoir? Eimear McBride on Elizabeth Hardwick's Sleepless Nights". The Guardian. Retrieved 24 July 2019.
  4. Zaleska, Monika (23 February 2018). "You Can't Explain Death to An Animal: An Interview with Sigrid Nunez". Literary Hub. Retrieved 20 January 2021.


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