Insomniac City

Name: Insomniac City: New York, Oliver, and Me
ISBN: 9781620404935

New York, Oliver, and Me

Bill Hayes

2018·151 pages·Nonfiction

Biography Literary Fiction

essays memoir

“unmask their subjects' best and truest selves”
— Jennifer Senior, New York Times

“frank, beautiful, bewitching”
— Jennifer Senior, New York Times

Bill Hayes's memoir Insomniac City provided a first look at his unique street photography. Now he presents an exquisite collection that captures the full range of his work and the magic of chance encounters in New York City. A policeman pauses at the end of a day. Cooks sneak in cigarette breaks. A pair of movers plays cards on the back of a truck. Friends claim the sidewalk. Lovers embrace. A flame-haired girl gazes mysteriously into the lens. And park benches provide a setting for a couple of hunks, a mom and her baby, a stylish nonagenarian . . . How New York Breaks Your Heart reveals ordinary New Yorkers at their most peace...

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