Like the most rewarding kind of travel writer, Bill Hayes is both informative and personal as he takes us through the borderlands of sleep and waking, mysterious yet familiar. I'm grateful for the way this intimate, reflective and factual guidebooks captures the feeling of that terrain." - Robert Pinsky, Poet Laureate of the United States, 1997-2000. Bill Hayes' life as an insomniac is rooted in the wry trappings of irony: His father ran a Coca-Cola factory, of all things. (I've often wondered if all that sugar and caffeine altered my neurochemical makeup.) Moving seamlessly to and from his present vantage point in San Francisco, Hayes'narrative affords an intimate look at one man's singular journey through contemporary life - from his sleep-disturbed childhood through his sleepwalking in adolescence to the height of his insomnia, when his partner struggles with AIDS and Hayes must face an increasingly troubling and debilitating sleep disorder. "As with desire, sleep resists pursuit. It must come find you. Nevertheless, I look for it." This powerful book is the result of Bill Hayes' lifelong search for sleep. INSOMNIACS, TAKE NOTE! 355 pages, including references and an index. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

INSOMNIAC SLEEP DISORDERS MEDICAL NEUROLOGY MEMOIR NARCOLEPSY APNEA SLEEPWALKING SLEEPTALKING EXPERIMENTS THEORIES LAB MYTHOLOGY