

An edition of The House of Sleep (1997)
By Jonathan Coe
Publish Date
1998
Publisher
Penguin,Penguin Putnam~trade
Language
eng
Pages
331
Description:
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...
subjects: Fiction, Literature, Sleep disorders, New York Times reviewed, Fiction, psychological, England, fiction, Sleep, Fiction, general
Places: England