Night: Night Life, Night Language, Sleep, and Dreams

Author/Contributor(s):	Alvarez, A
Publisher:	W. W. Norton & Company
Date:	07/01/1996
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

In a powerfully written book, the author of The Savage God examines night in all its aspects. From the neon-lit brilliance of Las Vegas to the shadowy underworld patrolled by the police to a scientific sleep laboratory, Alvarez shows how "night horrors" inspired and terrified Coleridge, how dreams liberated the minds of Stevenson and the Surrealists, and how his own childhood fears provided a gateway to the secret world of the unconscious. Illustrations.