Sleepless: A Memoir of Insomnia

by Marie Darrieussecq

A restless inquiry into the cultural and psychic sources of insomnia by one of contemporary French literature's most elegant voices.

Plagued by insomnia for twenty years, Marie Darrieussecq turns her attention to the causes, implications, and consequences of sleeplessness: a nocturnal suffering that culminates at 4 a.m. and then defines the next day. "Insomniac mornings are dead mornings," she observes. Prevented from falling asleep...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1635901774
• ISBN13: 9781635901771
• Release Date: September 2023
• Publisher: Semiotext(e)
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.7" x 8.2"