Sleep - A Utopian Bestiary (Paperback)

"My problem, my central problem, is I can't sleep. . ." By turns comic and poignant, brutal and beautiful, Sleep follows an insomniac's long journey to the light through a night of tormenting memories and lucid drunken speculation. A sequence of bizarre encounters with other lonely and despicable denizens of the night leads him to recover some meaning to his life: release from his dead mother's incapacity for love, his yearning for 'the first whore', for 'the unknown house', for sleep. . .