The House of Sleep
by Jonathan Coe
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0375400931
- ISBN 13
- 9780375400933
- Seller
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Oak Park, Michigan, United States
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About This Item
Very fine copy with minor shelf wear to jacket. Signed by Coe on half-title page. First American edition.
Synopsis
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...
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- Bookseller
- Book Beat (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 180355
- Title
- The House of Sleep
- Author
- Jonathan Coe
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First American Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0375400931
- ISBN 13
- 9780375400933
- Publisher
- Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1998
- Size
- 8vo
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children's Books;
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