Name: The Shapeless Unease: A Year of not Sleeping
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Author: Samantha Harvey
ISBN: 9780802148827

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The Shapeless Unease: A Year of not Sleeping

Type

Physical Book

Author

Samantha Harvey

Publisher

Black Cat

Year

2020

Language

English

Pages

192

Format

Hardcover

ISBN13

9780802148827

Synopsis "The Shapeless Unease: A Year of not Sleeping "

This genre-defying debut memoir by Betty Trask Prize winner, Samantha Harvey, weaves a tapestry of confessional anguish, flash fiction, cathartic poetry, and feverish observations on politics and psychology in a transcendent search for reality and truth. In 2016, Samantha Harvey began to lose sleep. She tried everything to appease her wakefulness: from medication to therapy, changes in her diet to changes in her living arrangements. Nothing seemed to help. The Shapeless Unease is Harvey’s darkly funny and deeply intelligent anatomy of her insomnia, an immersive interior monologue of a year without one of the most basic human needs. Original and profound, and narrated with a lucid breathlessness, this is a startlingly insightful exploration of memory, writing and influence, death and the will to survive, from “this generation’s Virginia Woolf” (Telegraph).

Samantha Harvey

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Samantha Harvey (Kent in 1975) is a British novelist. Her work covers themes such as memory, identity, and spirituality, explored with lyrical and evocative prose. Her first novel, The Wilderness (2009), won the Betty Trask Award and was shortlisted for the Orange Prize and the Guardian First Book Award.

Among her most notable works are All Is Song (2012), Dear Thief (2014), and The Western Wind (2018). In 2024, Harvey won the Booker Prize for her novel Orbital, a space epic that narrates the reflections of six astronauts at the International Space Station over 24 hours. In addition to her novels, she has published a non-fiction work titled The Shapeless Unease: A Year of Not Sleeping (2020), where she addresses her experience with insomnia.

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