The house of sleep

No cover

Jonathan Coe: The house of sleep (1997, Viking)

329 pages

English language

Published Jan. 2, 1997 by Viking.

ISBN:
978-0-670-86458-4
Copied ISBN!

View on OpenLibrary

No rating (0 reviews)

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...

6 editions