____________________________A moving celebration of what Bill Hayes calls ''the evanescent, the eavesdropped, the unexpected'' of life in New York City, and an intimate glimpse of his relationship with the late Oliver Sacks.____________________________''A beautiful memoir in which Oliver Sacks comes wonderfully to life ... Exquisitely wrought, heartrending and joyous'' - Joyce Carol Oates''A loving tribute to Sacks and to New York ... Read just 50 pages, and you-ll see easily enough how Hayes is Sacks-s logical complement'' - Jennifer Senior, New York Times____________________________Bill Hayes came to New York in 2009 with a one-way ticket and only the vaguest idea of how he would get by. But, at forty-eight years old, having spent decades in San Francisco, he craved change. Grieving over the death of his partner, he quickly discovered the profound consolations of the city-s incessant rhythms, the sight of the Empire State Building agai
