false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255835854m/3355636.jpg 3355636 1 <p>"Sycamore kicks mainstream literature in the teeth."-<i>The San Francisco Bay Guardian</i></p><p>This exhilarating new novel is about a gay man's struggle to find hope in the ruins of the everyday-battling roaches, Bikram yoga, chronically bad sex, NPR, Internet cruising, tweakers, the cops, hundred dollar bills, chronic pain, gay conformity, vegan restaurants, and incest-with the help of herbal medicine, late-night epiphanies, and sleeping pills.</p><p><b>Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore </b>is the gender-bending author of the highly praised novel <i>Pulling Taffy </i>and the editor of the anthology <i>Nobody Passes: Rejecting the Rules of Gender and Conformity</i>. Sycamore writes regularly for a variety of publications, including <i>Bitch</i>, <i>Utne Reader</i>, <i>AlterNet</i>, <i>Make/Shift</i>, and <i>MaximumRocknRoll</i>.</p> 3394770 1 9 2008 So Many Ways to Sleep Badly total:55|5:24|4:17|3:10|2:2|1:2| 55 224 161 14 3355636 0872864685 9780872864689 55 14 4.07 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255835854m/3355636.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3355636.So_Many_Ways_to_Sleep_Badly 4 5 false Thu Oct 23 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Oct 23 11:21:46 -0700 2008 Fri Oct 24 15:09:50 -0700 2008 Pulling Taffy, there isn't really a plot wi...more...]]> 3355636 0872864685 9780872864689 55 14 4.07 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255835854m/3355636.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3355636.So_Many_Ways_to_Sleep_Badly 4 3 false Fri Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Aug 10 13:01:12 -0700 2008 Tue Aug 19 16:56:01 -0700 2008 So Many Ways To Sleep Badly could be read as monotonous, or, to quote Publishers Weekly, "[t]he narrator takes far too long to move beyond the bitchy play-by-play, making sure that, by the time Sycamore introduces genuine stakes, readers will already feel too bored and browbeaten to care."...more...]]> 3355636 0872864685 9780872864689 55 14 4.07 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255835854m/3355636.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3355636.So_Many_Ways_to_Sleep_Badly 5 3 false Fri Dec 05 22:00:32 -0800 2008 Fri Dec 05 22:02:01 -0800 2008 3355636 0872864685 9780872864689 55 14 4.07 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255835854m/3355636.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3355636.So_Many_Ways_to_Sleep_Badly 5 2 false Tue Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Sep 06 19:51:24 -0700 2008 Tue Sep 09 07:29:56 -0700 2008 Somet...more...]]> 3355636 0872864685 9780872864689 55 14 4.07 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255835854m/3355636.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3355636.So_Many_Ways_to_Sleep_Badly 5 1 false Tue Aug 04 16:15:13 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 01 18:31:59 -0700 2008 Tue Aug 04 16:15:13 -0700 2009 —San Francisco Bay Guardian


Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore's exhilarating new novel is a gender-bending queer tale about the struggle to find hope in the ruins of everyday San Francisco: roaches, Bikram Yoga, chronically b...more...]]> 3355636 0872864685 9780872864689 55 14 4.07 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255835854m/3355636.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3355636.So_Many_Ways_to_Sleep_Badly 5 1 false Thu Dec 11 11:32:41 -0800 2008 Thu Dec 11 11:38:46 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3355636 0872864685 9780872864689 55 14 4.07 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255835854m/3355636.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3355636.So_Many_Ways_to_Sleep_Badly 5 1 false Mon Dec 15 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 01 16:36:23 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 01 16:44:57 -0800 2009 3355636 0872864685 9780872864689 55 14 4.07 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255835854m/3355636.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3355636.So_Many_Ways_to_Sleep_Badly 5 0 false Sun Jan 11 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 10 21:49:52 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 10 21:50:01 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3355636 0872864685 9780872864689 55 14 4.07 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255835854m/3355636.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3355636.So_Many_Ways_to_Sleep_Badly 3 1 false Fri Jun 05 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 05 22:21:56 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 05 22:56:11 -0700 2009 At first it had me feeling like I was completely sober and subjected to endure the heated rantings of a tweaker, a drunk, AND a junki...more...]]> 3355636 0872864685 9780872864689 55 14 4.07 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255835854m/3355636.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3355636.So_Many_Ways_to_Sleep_Badly 4 0 false Sun Jan 04 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 04 23:13:48 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 04 23:18:35 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3355636 0872864685 9780872864689 55 14 4.07 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255835854m/3355636.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3355636.So_Many_Ways_to_Sleep_Badly 3 0 false Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Oct 01 19:36:33 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 01 19:38:23 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3355636 0872864685 9780872864689 55 14 4.07 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255835854m/3355636.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3355636.So_Many_Ways_to_Sleep_Badly 0 0 false Wed Oct 14 09:36:27 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 14 09:39:38 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3355636 0872864685 9780872864689 55 14 4.07 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255835854m/3355636.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3355636.So_Many_Ways_to_Sleep_Badly 1 0 false Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Apr 04 07:49:14 -0700 2009 Fri Apr 17 08:41:25 -0700 2009 3355636 0872864685 9780872864689 55 14 4.07 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255835854m/3355636.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3355636.So_Many_Ways_to_Sleep_Badly 0 0 false Tue Oct 21 13:23:56 -0700 2008 Tue Oct 21 13:26:18 -0700 2008 3355636 0872864685 9780872864689 55 14 4.07 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255835854m/3355636.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3355636.So_Many_Ways_to_Sleep_Badly 4 0 false Wed Dec 09 11:09:39 -0800 2009 Wed Dec 09 11:09:39 -0800 2009 3355636 0872864685 9780872864689 55 14 4.07 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255835854m/3355636.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3355636.So_Many_Ways_to_Sleep_Badly 0 0 false Tue Dec 08 14:15:25 -0800 2009 Tue Dec 08 14:15:29 -0800 2009 3355636 0872864685 9780872864689 55 14 4.07 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255835854m/3355636.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3355636.So_Many_Ways_to_Sleep_Badly 0 0 false Tue Dec 08 08:33:59 -0800 2009 Tue Dec 08 08:33:59 -0800 2009 3355636 0872864685 9780872864689 55 14 4.07 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255835854m/3355636.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3355636.So_Many_Ways_to_Sleep_Badly 0 0 false Sun Nov 15 12:16:23 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 15 12:16:23 -0800 2009 3355636 0872864685 9780872864689 55 14 4.07 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255835854m/3355636.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3355636.So_Many_Ways_to_Sleep_Badly 0 0 false Fri Nov 13 16:38:29 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 13 16:38:29 -0800 2009 3355636 0872864685 9780872864689 55 14 4.07 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255835854m/3355636.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3355636.So_Many_Ways_to_Sleep_Badly 0 0 false Sun Nov 08 11:34:26 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 08 11:34:26 -0800 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=3355636