Your Eyelids Are Growing Heavy

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Your Eyelids Are Growing Heavy
First edition
AuthorBarbara Paul
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
GenreCrime
PublisherDoubleday
Publication date
1981
Media typePrint (paperback)
Pages187 pp
ISBN0-385-17466-7
OCLC6863073
813/.54 19
LC ClassPS3566.A82615 Y6

Your Eyelids Are Growing Heavy is the fourth crime novel by the American writer Barbara Paul.[1]

Set in 1970s Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, it opens as the groundskeeper of Schenley Park Golf Course tries to waken Megan Phillips on the fourteenth-hole fairway, where she seems to be sleeping off a drinking binge. But Phillips, after psychiatric examination, can't remember a large blank in her life. Slowly she begins to realize that she was hypnotized, and that she must find the culprit to get her life back.[2]

Paul said that she wrote the novel in two weeks, in a deliberate attempt to see how fast a novel could be written. She was pleased with the result, saying that "Doubleday accepted the book without a murmur... it stands up to re-reading, which is always the acid test."[3]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Barbara Paul, Contemporary Authors Online, Detroit: Thomson Gale, 2008". {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  2. ^ "Steel Rose, Publishers Weekly, 1997". {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  3. ^ Paul, Barbara (1 Aug 1999). "Author's commentary on the novel". Retrieved 7 December 2011.