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The narrator of Sleepless Nights is a woman piecing together her life from scraps. Those scraps include tent meetings in Kentucky, a seedy hotel in New York in the 1940s, a nightclub where Billy Holliday sings. There are newly divorced women taking each other's emotional temperature and several seductive men - especially a Dutch doctor who conducts his adulteries with domestic coziness. Above all, there is Hardwick's own unmistakable sensibility, one that delights in startling juxtapositions and the music of the American language.

Издательство: "Random House, Inc." (2001)

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Hardwick, Elizabeth

▪ 2008

      American novelist, short-story writer, and essayist

born July 27, 1916, Lexington, Ky.

died Dec. 2, 2007, New York, N.Y.
was known for her eloquent literary and social criticism. After attending the University of Kentucky (B.A., 1938; M.A., 1939), Hardwick moved to New York City, where she studied at Columbia University. Her experience as a young Southern woman in Manhattan provided the backdrop for her sombre, introspective first novel, The Ghostly Lover (1945), about a lonely young woman seeking to free herself from the ghosts of her past. During Hardwick's marriage (1949–72) to the poet Robert Lowell, she wrote her second novel, The Simple Truth (1955), about a murder trial in a university town. As a novelist she was perhaps best known for Sleepless Nights (1979), a partly autobiographical work about the transitory, poignant nature of human encounters. As a frequent contributor to the Partisan Review and other liberal intellectual journals, Hardwick developed the elegant, incisive analytic voice that became her trademark as an essayist and critic. She edited The Selected Letters of William James (1961), published the essay collection A View of My Own (1962), and helped to found The New York Review of Books (1963). The latter journal became the principal outlet for her criticism, a second volume of which, Seduction and Betrayal: Women and Literature, appeared in 1974. Hardwick published the essay collection Sight-Readings in 1998 and a brief biography of novelist Herman Melville in 2000.

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▪ American writer
in full  Elizabeth Bruce Hardwick 
born July 27, 1916, Lexington, Ky., U.S.
died Dec. 2, 2007, New York, N.Y.

      American novelist, short-story writer, and essayist known for her eloquent literary and social criticism.

      Hardwick was one of 11 children. She attended the University of Kentucky (B.A., 1938; M.A., 1939). Finding that Lexington and its environs did not engage her, she left for New York City, where she studied at Columbia University. Her experience as a young Southern woman in Manhattan provided the backdrop for her sombre, introspective first novel, The Ghostly Lover (1945), about a lonely young woman seeking to free herself from the ghosts of her past. Hardwick's marriage to the poet Robert Lowell (Lowell, Robert, Jr.) lasted from 1949 to 1972, during which period she wrote her second novel, The Simple Truth (1955), about a murder trial in a university town. As a novelist she is perhaps best known for Sleepless Nights (1979), a partly autobiographical work about the transitory, poignant nature of human encounters.

      As a frequent contributor to the Partisan Review and other liberal intellectual journals, Hardwick developed the elegant, incisive analytical voice that became her trademark as an essayist and critic. She edited The Selected Letters of William James (1961), published the essay collection A View of My Own (1962), and helped to found The New York Review of Books (1963). The latter journal became the principal outlet for her criticism, a second volume of which, Seduction and Betrayal: Women and Literature, appeared in 1974. She also edited the multivolume Rediscovered Fiction by American Women (1977). In 1998 she published Sight-Readings, a collection of her essays on American writers written between 1982 and 1997, and in 2000 she published a brief biography of Herman Melville.

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Источник: Hardwick, Elizabeth

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