The House of Sleep Paperback - 1999
by Jonathan Coe
Like a surreal and highly caffeinated version of "The Big Chill", Coe's new novel brings together four students who first meet in college in the '80s. A decade later, they are haunted by sleep, or the lack of it, and reunite at a clinic for sleep disorders.
Summary
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Winner of the Writers' Guild Best Fiction Award in England and the Prix Medicis 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.
Details
- Title The House of Sleep
- Author Jonathan Coe
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: Repri
- Pages 352
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Vintage, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date 1999-04-27
- ISBN 9780375700880 / 0375700889
- Weight 0.6 lbs (0.27 kg)
- Dimensions 8.02 x 5.19 x 0.79 in (20.37 x 13.18 x 2.01 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 1980's
- Chronological Period: 1990's
- Chronological Period: 1950-1999
- Library of Congress subjects England, Didactic fiction
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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Citations
- New York Times, 07/27/1999, Page 32
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