The House of Sleep - Couverture rigide

Coe, Jonathan

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0375400931 ISBN 13 : 9780375400933

Editeur : Alfred a Knopf Inc, 1998

Synopsis

Book by Coe Jonathan

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Winner of the Writers' Guild Best Fiction Award in England and the Prix Médicis in France

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.

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Sarah is a narcoleptic who has dreams so vivid she mistakes them for real events; Robert has had his life changed for ever by the misunderstandings arising from her condition; Terry, the insomniac, spends his wakeful nights fuelling his obsession with movies; and the increasingly unstable Dr Gregory Dudden sees sleep as a life-shortening disease which must be eradicated .A group of students sharing a house. They fall in and out of love, they drift apart. Yet a decade later they are drawn back together by a series of coincidences involving their obsession with sleep - and each other ...

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Alfred a Knopf Inc
• Date d'édition: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0375400931
• ISBN 13: 9780375400933
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 331