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Insomnia
Hardback Edition: 1
With her new memoir Insomnia, Marina Benjamin has produced an unsettling account of an unsettling condition that treats our inability to sleep not as a disorder, but as an existential experience that can electrify our understanding of ourselves, and of creativity and love.
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Insomnia is a bravura piece of writing. At once philosophical and poetical, the book ranges widely over history and culture, literature and art, exploring a threshold experience that is intimately involved with trespass and contamination -- the illicit importing of day into night. With Insomnia, Benjamin aims to light up the workings of our inner minds, delivering a startlingly fresh look at what it means to be wakeful in the dark.
Featured in the November 2018 Cool for Schools newsletter.
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Pages : 133
Publisher : Scribe Publications
Publication date : 2018-10-29
Subjects: Non-fiction, Lifestyle, Sport And Leisure, Medicine, Health And Personal Development