Sex Sleep Eat Drink Dream (43 page)

JENNIFER ACKERMAN
is the author of
Notes from the Shore
and
Chance in the House of Fate.
The recipient of a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and literature fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Bunting Institute of Radcliffe College, she writes for
National Geographic,
the
New York Times,
and other publications. She is married to the novelist Karl Ackerman and has two daughters.

Jacket design: Martha Kennedy
Cover photo: © Chris Rogers/CORBIS

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Table of Contents

Title Page

Front

Morning

1. AROUSAL

2. MAKING SENSE

3. WIT

Midday

4. THE TEETH OF NOON

5. POST-LUNCH

Afternoon

6. THE DOLDRUMS

7. STRUNG OUT

8. IN MOTION

Evening

9. PARTY FACE

Night

10. BEWITCHED

11. NIGHT AIRS

12. SLEEP

13. HOUR OF THE WOLF

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