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Bedlam presents passages on insomnia from world literature past and present. Writers include Isak Dinesen, Marcel Proust, Raymond Carver,Marguerite Duras, Colette, Ovid, Christina Stead, Chekhov, Ernest Hemingway, Oscar Wilde, Dorothy Parker and Elizabeth Jolley. (Publisher blurb)
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'In Search of the Big Sleep', the author's account of her search for a cure for insomnia published in The Independent Monthly (September, 1995), inspired the theme of the novel Night by Night. She then realised that the source of the passages on insomnia quoted in the novel could become a book in its own right, and hence Bedlam - An Anthology of Sleepless Nights in Literature was compiled and published.
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St Leonards,
North Sydney - Lane Cove area,
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, 1996 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
- For Shannoni"The first time I held you like this,", single work poetry (p. 132)
- The Hour of the Wolf, extract novel (p. 144-145)
- Sleepwalking (from Voss), extract (p. 167-168)
- Things That Go Boomp in the Night, single work prose (p. 170-173)
- The Night Watchi"I am lying like a creature", single work poetry (p. 174-175)
- The Nightwatchman, single work short story (p. 191-201)
- The Mint Lawn, extract novel (p. 270-273)
- I Beg, I Beg... (from For Love Alone), extract novel (p. 274-276)
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