The Coma

SOFTBACK WITH SOFT PAPER OUTER JACKET, SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edn: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st. Full number line.* Date of Publication: 2004* Publisher: Faber & Faber.* Binding and outer cover condition: Colour-illustrated soft card covers showing ?Untitled? (from Je Sublime by Benjamin Peter, 1936.) No bumps or rubs. Absolutely minimal shelf wear to edges & corners. Light crease diagonally to front. No creases to spine or hinge. Seems lightly-used. VG* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp & tight bright. No annotations, inscriptions or marks to text, some age to page edges and particularly to top edge. VG+* Illustrations: Numerous b/w images by Nicholas Garland within text throughout.* Pages: Un-paginated (168pp). text. ix pp. blank pages at rear.* Product Description:- From the internationally known author of ?The Beach.? Here in ?The Coma? a young man is brutally assaulted late at night on an underground train by a gang of thugs. Beaten unconscious, he lies for days in a hospital bed ? but appears to make a full recovery. On discharge from hospital, Carl picks up the threads of his daily life, visiting friends, seeing his girlfriend ? until he starts to notice strange leaps in his perception of time, distortions in his experience. Is he truly reacting with the outside world or might he be terribly mistaken? So begins a dark psychological drama that raises profound questions about the boundary between the real and the imagined.* This is a VG+ copy of the 1st./1st. fnl. with somes light age and shelf wear.*