The House of Sleep

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'Moving as well as clever, pleasurable as well as smart ... it must be one of the best books of the year' Malcolm Bradbury, The Times A group of students share a house in the eighties, fali in and out of love, and drift apart. A decade later they are drawn back together by a series of coincidences involving their obsession with sleep. Sarah is a narcoleptic who has dreams so vivid she mistakes them for real events; Róbert has his life changed for ever by the misunderstandings that arise 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 he must eradicate ... 'A remarkable book ... not only a clever növel, but alsó one that creates a powerful, hypnotic emotional intensity ... Perhaps most strange of all, for a növel about insomniacs, The House of Sleep is a wonderful bedtime reád' Sunday Times 'This is a fiercely clever, witty növel, but... Tovább

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'Moving as well as clever, pleasurable as well as smart ... it must be one of the best books of the year' Malcolm Bradbury, The Times A group of students share a house in the eighties, fali in and out of love, and drift apart. A decade later they are drawn back together by a series of coincidences involving their obsession with sleep. Sarah is a narcoleptic who has dreams so vivid she mistakes them for real events; Róbert has his life changed for ever by the misunderstandings that arise 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 he must eradicate ... 'A remarkable book ... not only a clever növel, but alsó one that creates a powerful, hypnotic emotional intensity ... Perhaps most strange of all, for a növel about insomniacs, The House of Sleep is a wonderful bedtime reád' Sunday Times 'This is a fiercely clever, witty növel, but it is alsó wise, generous and hopeful ... Coe has been compared to Peacock, Waugh and Wodehouse, but this növel shows he has outgrown even this distinguished lineage. A compellingly beautiful tale of love and loss' The Times Literary Supplement ISBN 0-14-025083-2 'Energy, tenderness, social commitment, all in a style that comes like breath ... one of the very best contemporary British novelists' Candia McWilliam, Independent on Sunday 978014025083191201 Vissza