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Marianne is teetering at the edge of reason. A death in the family sends her brilliant academic career and promising future spiraling out of control until resentment towards those who shaped her past leads her on a wild and desperate search for the truth about herself. On the seedy side of New York, she meets Miles, a hip musician busking the streets and playing low-rent venues in a muddled bid to make his own dreams come true. In her new life, she finds anarchic squalor, home grown music and poetry, booze, drugs, sex, violence, love, loss . and, above all, exhilarating freedom on her troubled journey from sleep to awakening. This gritty, relentless story unfolds with the same cool detachment that motivates the central character to peel back the layers of her life and expose the painful scalding within.

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  • Paperback: 296 pages
  • Publisher: Bewrite Books (July 24, 2007)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1904492967
  • ISBN-13: 978-1904492962
  • Product Dimensions: 7.9 x 5 x 0.7 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,288,144 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars A Must Read for Teens and Parents, July 30, 2007
No, "Sleep Before Evening" isn't a how-to book for either teens or parents. It does, however, give insight into the horrors of drug addiction, how it can happen to anyone and how it can escalate. We are all affected by it and it may some day creep up on us with silent paws to become part of our lives in a personal way. Having some understanding of the disease, how it can escalate and how it is not a cause for shame but for action can make a difference if and when that happens.

This is a wonderful book, a story told with compassion and one that, as a volunteer drug counselor, I know rings so very heartbreakingly true.
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Reviewed by Carolyn Howard-Johnson, award-winning author of THIS IS THE PLACE, HARKENING and a chapbook of poetry, TRACINGS, all available on Amaazon.
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5.0 out of 5 stars This book will touch heart and soul, July 14, 2007
The dialogue is solid and believable, and the characters live and breathe and scratch themselves. The drug scenes and the horrors of dependence are especially well-rendered, but the story is ultimately uplifting and optimistic. It is a triumph of the soul. Read this book. CHAD HAUTMANN, author of Billie's Ghost


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5.0 out of 5 stars A young girl's journey into the heart of darkness, August 5, 2007
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As the drama coils tighter and tighter, it is the exquisite quality of writing that keeps the reader utterly glued. As Marianne struggles with her demons and we almost hold our breath as she nears her eighteenth birthday, Magdalena Ball's Sleep Before Evening shows us that in order to find yourself, you sometimes have to lose yourself first.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Gritty and eye-opening
Ms. Ball has written a wonderful tale of the seedier side of life and the unfailing ease in which one can fall into a world that is not of their own norm.
Published 3 months ago by 1920s Movie Fan

5.0 out of 5 stars Brave Choice
The plot of SLEEP BEFORE EVENING is a brave author choice. Teen Marianne takes us on her journey into loss, grief, and medicating her pain with substance abuse. Read more
Published 14 months ago by Frances Schelly

4.0 out of 5 stars A Fist Full of Reality
Marianne {Mari} Cottons life soon turns from picture perfect to a nightmare in a heartbeat, after her grandfather's death. Read more
Published 21 months ago by Petra B. Lozano

5.0 out of 5 stars A Cautionary Coming-of-Age Story
What we have here is a full-on rush of ambitious literary fiction. That it largely succeeds as such is no consolation to horny but bookish males hoping for a bit of fluff or a few... Read more
Published 22 months ago by Gerald Everett Jones

5.0 out of 5 stars Sleep Before Evening - an "addictive" book

Life isn't perfect, but seventeen-year-old Marianne Cotton is blessed with a loving and devoted grandfather who carefully schools her in piano, the arts, and literature... Read more
Published on September 24, 2007 by Aaron Paul Lazar

5.0 out of 5 stars interesting portrait of struggle and addiction in new york city
A very readable and gritty book about the life struggles of Marianne, a young woman growing up in New York. Read more
Published on September 8, 2007 by P. Shapiro

5.0 out of 5 stars A good read
I'm very impressed. I loved the relationship between the protagonist and her grandfather, and the mother, who's so obviously bi-polar. Really a good read!
Published on September 7, 2007 by Pamela E. Hurley

5.0 out of 5 stars Fresh Literary Voice from the Land Down Under
Magdalena Ball's first novel, Sleep Before Evening, is required reading for aficionados of the school of confessional writing. Read more
Published on August 28, 2007 by HH, author

4.0 out of 5 stars A Parent's Sleepwalk Through Life
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