Shapeless Unease
About this book
"In 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. The Shapeless Unease 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" (Telegraph)"--
Details
- OL Work ID
- OL20742661W
Subjects
SleepInsomniaInternal medicineNew York Times reviewedAmerican Women authorsBiographySleep disordersPhysiological aspectsAltered states of consciousnessPhysiologySleep Initiation and Maintenance DisordersPhysiopathologyConsciousness Disorders