Your Eyelids Are Growing Heavy

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Your Eyelids Are Growing Heavy
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First edition
Author Barbara Paul
LanguageEnglish
Genre Crime
Publisher Doubleday
Publication date
1981
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (paperback)
Pages187 pp
ISBN 0-385-17466-7
OCLC 6863073
813/.54 19
LC Class PS3566.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

  1. "Barbara Paul". Contemporary Authors Online, Detroit: Thomson Gale, 2008.
  2. "Steel Rose". Publishers Weekly, 1997.
  3. Paul, Barbara (1 Aug 1999). "Author's commentary on the novel" . Retrieved 7 December 2011.