The Shapeless Unease

The Shapeless Unease

Non-Fiction, Biography & Memoir, Literary Biography & Memoir
Paperback Published on: 07/01/2021
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Synopsis

Sleep. Sleep. Like money, you only think about it when you have too little. Then you think about it all the time, and the less you have the more you think about it. It becomes the prism through which you see the world and nothing can exist except in relation to it.

Samantha Harvey's insomnia arrived, seemingly, from nowhere; for a year she has spent her nights chasing sleep that rarely comes. She's tried everything to appease it. Nothing is helping.

What happens when one of the basic human needs goes unmet? For Samantha Harvey, extreme sleep deprivation resulted in a raw clarity about life itself. Original and profound, The Shapeless Unease is a startlingly insightful exploration of memory, writing and influence, death and grief, and the will to survive.

  • Publisher: Vintage Publishing
  • ISBN: 9781529112092
  • Number of pages: 192
  • Weight: 138g
  • Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 12 mm

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The Shapeless Unease
Thoughtful gem
An utterly engaging, witty, ironically-dreamlike memoir. Thought on life, death and everything in between during a year of insomnia. Honest, equal parts da... READ MORE
Graham Wood