Society tries to write these lives before they are lived. 'I hate the glossary, the concordance of truth that some have about my real life,' she complained. Above all, here is prose blurring into poetry, language to lose - and perhaps to find - yourself in. Sleepless Nights Hazel Rowley Throughout the wretched summer of 1973, while the Watergate scandal raged, Elizabeth Hardwick was in the limelight as the publicly aban- doned wife of the man often touted as Americas foremost poet. Here are luminous sketches of characters she has met that illuminate the era's racism, sexism, and poverty. love and alcohol and clothes on the floor.' Here begin the erotic affairs and dinner parties, the abortions and heartbreaks, the friendships and 'people I have buried'. Escaping her childhood home of Kentucky, the narrator arrives at a bohemian hotel in Manhattan filled with 'drunks, actors, gamblers. It is more than the story of a life: it is Elizabeth Hardwick's experience of womanhood in the twentieth century. First published in 1979, Sleepless Nights is a unique collage of fiction and memoir, letters and essays, portraits and dreams. Hardwick was married to the poet Robert Lowell from 1949 to 1972 and their collected correspondence, The Dolphin Letters, will be published in 2019. York, no longer a we. authored three novels, a biography of Herman Melville, and four collections of essays, and was the recipient of a Gold Medal from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the Lifetime Achievement Citation from the National Book Critics Circle. Hardwick was married to the poet Robert Lowell from 1949 to 1972 and their collected correspondence, The Dolphin Letters, will be published in 2019. She authored three novels, a biography of Herman Melville, and four collections of essays, and was the recipient of a Gold Medal from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the Lifetime Achievement Citation from the National Book Critics Circle. As co-founder of The New York Review of Books, she contributed more than a hundred pieces to the magazine, as well as writing fiction for the Partisan Review and New Yorker. She was one of the great critics and intellectuals of her time. She Elizabeth Hardwick (1916-2007) was born in Lexington, Kentucky, and educated at the University of Kentucky and Columbia University. united by the high intelligence and beauty of Hardwick's prose.' - Sally Rooney I am alone here in New Elizabeth Hardwick (1916-2007) was born in Lexington, Kentucky, and educated at the University of Kentucky and Columbia University. 'A series of fleeting images and memories.
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