Kathleen Frazier

Sleepwalker (eBook, ePUB)

The Mysterious Makings and Recovery of a Somnambulist

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

I came to in the middle of it, like waking inside a horror movie, silent scream and all. Eyes wide open. I was standing at an open window, staring at the dizzying curve of Riverside Drive, five floors below. I'd stopped, somehow, poised, about to jump.

Growing up the good girl in an Irish American family full of drinkers and terrible sleepers, Kathleen Frazier was twelve when her seemingly innocent sleepwalking turned dangerous. Over the next few years, she was a popular A+ student by day, the star of her high school musical. At night, she both longed for and dreaded sleep.

Frazier moved to Manhattan in the 1980s, hoping for a life in the theater but getting a run of sleepwalking performances instead. Efforts to abate her malady with drinking failed miserably. She became promiscuous, looking for nighttime companionship. Could a bed partner save her from flinging herself down a flight of stairs or out an open window? Exhaustion stalked her, and rest and love were seemingly out of reach.

This is the journey Frazier illuminates in her intimate memoir. While highlighting her quest to beat her sleep terrors and insomnia, this is ultimately a story of health, hope, and redemption.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Simon + Schuster LLC
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. September 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781510700703
• Artikelnr.: 43808970

Autorenporträt

Kathleen Frazier is an accomplished actress and writer, a Norman Mailer fellow, and a member of the Actors Studio. She is a member of Irish American Writers and Artists, the International Women's Writing Guild, and Artists Without Walls. She performs her work regularly at a number of venues and salons in Manhattan, including the Cell, the Cornelia Street Café, and Bar Thalia. Kathleen lives and sleeps soundly with her family in New York City.