Naked Sleeper

<p><b>By the bestselling, National Book Award-winning author of THE FRIEND</b><br><br><b>The story of a woman''s search for self-knowledge, for understanding of others, and for an answer to the imperative question: How should she live? <br></b><br>Nona longs for a life of purpose, order and dignity. But despite all her aspirations, this ideal constantly eludes her. At an artists'' retreat, where she plans to finally get down to writing a book, she meets a man who she intuitively mistrusts - and yet begins an intense affair with him. Despite being happily married, she then flies across the country to pursue him, and this sets of a series of events which will force her to examine everything she believed she wanted. <br><br>Never before published in the UK, <i>Naked Sleeper </i>is about the inescapable and sometimes unendurable complexities of love and family. <br><br>''A terrific novel'' <b>DWIGHT GARNER, <i>NEW YORK TIMES</i></b><br><br>''Once you discover Sigrid Nunez, you don''t look back'' <b>ANNE ENRIGHT</b><br><br>''A story that abounds in vivid moments and moods'' <b><i>NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW</i></b><br><br>''An enlightening literary adventure'' <i>PEOPLE</i></p>