The House of Sleep
of Jonathan Coe (Goodreads Author)
Description
Like a surreal and highly caffeinated version of The Big Chill, Jonathan Coe's new novel follows four students who knew each other in college in the eighties. Sarah is a narcoleptic who has dreams so vivid she mistakes them for real events. Robert has his life changed forever by the misunderstandings that arise from her condition. Terry spends his wakeful nights fueling his obsession with movies. And an increasingly unstable doctor, Gregory, sees sleep as a life-shortening disease which he must eradicate.But after ten years of fretful slumber and dreams gone bad, the four reunite in their college town to confront their disorders. In a Gothic cliffside manor being used as a clinic for sleep disorders, they discover that neither love, nor lunacy, nor obsession ever rests.
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Book Details
- Format Paperback
- Pages 337 pages
- Publisher Vintage
- Publication Date May 1999
- First Publication 10/28/97
- Language English
- ISBN 9780375700880
- Edition First Vintage Contemporaries Edition
- Category Fiction
- Scenario ['London, England']
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