The House of Sleep
Autor Jonathan Coeen Limba Engleză Paperback – 25 iun 2014
Sarah is a narcoleptic who has dreams so vivid she mistakes them for real events; Robert has 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. . .
Winner of the 1998 Prix Médicis Étranger, The House of Sleepis an intensely moving and frequently hilarious novel about love, obsession and sleep.
'Moving, clever, pleasurable, smart...one of the best books of the year' Malcolm Bradbury,The Times
'There are bits that make you laugh out loud and others that make your heart ache'Guardian
'Fiercely clever, witty, wise, hopeful...a compellingly beautiful tale of love and loss'The Times Literary Supplement
Jonathan Coe's novels are filled with biting political satire, moving and astute observations of life and hilarious set pieces that have made him one of the most popular writers of his generation. His other titles,The Accidental Woman,The Rotters' Club(winner of the Everyman Wodehouse prize),The Closed Circle,The Dwarves of Death,What a Carve Up!(winner of the 1995 John Llewellyn Rhys Prize) andThe Rain Before it Falls, are all available as Penguin paperback.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780241967744
ISBN-10: 0241967740
Pagini: 352
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.25 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0241967740
Pagini: 352
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.25 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Notă biografică
Jonathan
Coeis
the
author
of
thirteen
novels,
all
published
by
Penguin,
which
include
the
highly
acclaimed
bestsellersWhat
a
Carve
Up!,The
House
of
Sleep,The
Rotters'
Club,Number
11andMiddle
England,
which
won
the
Costa
Novel
of
the
Year
Award
and
the
Prix
du
Livre
Européen.He
is
also
the
author
of
a
biography
of
B.S
Johnson,Like
a
Fiery
Elephant,
andThe
Broken
Mirror,
a
children's
book.
Recenzii
"Intricately plotted and ingeniously constructed. . . . A deft satire . . . a strange and poignant love story." --The Wall Street Journal
"Often disconcerting, sometimes moving, frequently funny. . . . Coe eviscerates the bottom-liners with hilarious bare-toothed ferocity." --The Los Angeles Times Book Review
"Jonathan Coe has written a witty, engaging romance that reinvigorates the old saw that life is a dream." --The New York Times Book Review
"An epic farce fueled by romance and satire. . . . It is also a hilarious and deeply touching tale. . . .Love, tenderness, affection: The House of Sleep glows with these qualities, and exalts them." --San Francisco Chronicle
"Often disconcerting, sometimes moving, frequently funny. . . . Coe eviscerates the bottom-liners with hilarious bare-toothed ferocity." --The Los Angeles Times Book Review
"Jonathan Coe has written a witty, engaging romance that reinvigorates the old saw that life is a dream." --The New York Times Book Review
"An epic farce fueled by romance and satire. . . . It is also a hilarious and deeply touching tale. . . .Love, tenderness, affection: The House of Sleep glows with these qualities, and exalts them." --San Francisco Chronicle
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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.
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.