| Inspired Sleep Contributor(s): Cohen, Robert (Author) |
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ISBN: 0375718877 ISBN-13: 9780375718878 Publisher: Vintage OUR PRICE: $12.56 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2002 Annotation: These days, Bonnie Saks is lucky to gets four consecutive hours of shut-eye, what with her bed-wetting young son, her unfinished doctoral thesis, her meager teaching salary, and the fact that she's pregnant by a lover about as reliable as her ex-husband. Meanwhile, Ian Ogelvie, an ambitious young research scientist, is setting up a study of a promising new sleep aid. Their chance encounter forms the backdrop for this richly exuberant portrait of contemporary America, encompassing everything from the slippery evasions of love to the intricate network that binds together the pharmaceutical industry, managed care, and a shadow population of lost, sleepless souls. At once entertaining and philosophic, "Inspired Sleep heralds a major voice in American fiction. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Women - Fiction | Family Life - General |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2001045333 |
| Series: Vintage Contemporaries |
| Physical Information: 0.87" H x 5.26" W x 7.96" (0.69 lbs) 400 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - New England - Geographic Orientation - Massachusetts |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: These days, Bonnie Saks is lucky to gets four consecutive hours of shut-eye, what with her bed-wetting young son, her unfinished doctoral thesis, her meager teaching salary, and the fact that she's pregnant by a lover about as reliable as her ex-husband. Meanwhile, Ian Ogelvie, an ambitious young research scientist, is setting up a study of a promising new sleep aid. Their chance encounter forms the backdrop for this richly exuberant portrait of contemporary America, encompassing everything from the slippery evasions of love to the intricate network that binds together the pharmaceutical industry, managed care, and a shadow population of lost, sleepless souls. At once entertaining and philosophic, Inspired Sleep heralds a major voice in American fiction. |