Five Quarts: A Personal and Natural History of Blood - Rilegato

Praise for Bill Hayes

Five Quarts
“A remarkable journey, at once highly erudite and profoundly personal, that leads us through history, religion, science–and our own bodies. Bill Hayes is by turns lyrical, rueful, humorous, questioning, and very moving in this book about himself, about our species, and about our past.”
–Perri Klass, M.D.

“Bill Hayes’s highly original meditation on blood is finally, also, a graceful and subtle love story.”
–Richard Rodriguez, author of Brown: The Last Discovery of America

Sleep Demons
“A lovely weave of memory and science, great characters and compassionate humor. Insomniacs will love it for the sense of connection and solution, the rest of you (grrr) for its wisdom and wonderful writing.”
–Anne Lamott, author of Bird by Bird

“Hayes, a lifelong insomniac, pursues sleep as avidly and lyrically as Nabokov pursued butterflies.”
–San Francisco Chronicle

“An intelligent, beautifully written book . . . that variously reads like a journey of scientific discovery, a personal memoir, and a literary episode of Ripley’s Believe It or Not.”
–Publishers Weekly (starred review)

“A graceful hybrid of a book that’s half research treatise and half memoir.”
–Entertainment Weekly (Editor’s Choice)

BILL HAYES is the author of the national bestseller Sleep Demons: An Insomniac’s Memoir. His work has been published in The New York Times Magazine and Details, among other publications, and at Salon.com. He lives in San Francisco with his partner, Steve.