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Bill Hayes came to New York City in 2009 with a one-way ticket and only the vaguest idea of how he would get by. But, at forty-eight years old, having spent decades in San Francisco, he craved change. Grieving over the death of his partner, he quickly discovered the profound consolations of the city's incessant rhythms, the sight of the Empire State Building against the night sky, and New Yorkers themselves, kindred souls that Hayes, a lifelong insomniac, encountered on late-night strolls with his camera.
And he unexpectedly fell in love again, with his friend and neighbor, the writer and neurologist Oliver Sacks, whose exuberance--"I don't so much fear death as I do wasting life," he tells Hayes early on--is captured in funny and touching vignettes throughout. What emerges is a portrait of Sacks at his most personal and endearing, from falling in love for the first time at age seventy-five to facing illness and death (Sacks died of cancer in August 2015). Insomniac City is both a meditation on grief and a celebration of life. Filled with Hayes's distinctive street photos of everyday New Yorkers, the book is a love song to the city and to all who have felt the particular magic and solace it offers.
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I was wondering what's like to be a rose.
评分补足sacks的自传
评分很温柔很乐观很积极，但是还是忍不住落泪 / notes from the journal从Billy遇见Oliver开始出现，到Oliver离世结束
评分是纽约城让你心碎，也是纽约城把你的心捡拾起来重新拼贴完整；这城市里每天有多少生离死别，就有多少细腻的美与爱与感动。可能生活再久，也不会爱上这座城，但是至少可以学着发现身边人的故事，道路两旁的美景。在这样一座宏大的、躁动的、川流熙攘的城市里，来一场不期而至却又绚烂美好的爱情，可能是纽约城给那些爱它的人最好的馈赠。纵是每一段爱有尽期，这城里永不缺少深情之人。
评分You leave it, you miss it and you know you love it from the start.
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