Bibliograph

Sleepless Nights in the Procrustean Bed, Harlan Ellison

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Label

Sleepless Nights in the Procrustean Bed, Harlan Ellison

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Sleepless Nights in the Procrustean Bed

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Harlan Ellison

Summary

Harlan Ellison-master essayist, gadfly, literary myth figure, and viewer of dark portent-has been, for the greater part of his life, a burr under the saddle of complacency. In this collection, his former assistant and confidante, Marty Clark, has culled from hundreds of rare and un-reprinted works to select twenty wide-ranging essays-nonfiction writings ranging from travelogue to media criticism, literary exploration to personal musing-that demonstrate why the monstre sacre of imaginative literature won the prestigious Silver Pen award from PEN International for his journalistic forays

Target audience

adult

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