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The House of Sleep

The House of Sleep2000

Jonathan Coe

3.7(21)on Hardcover

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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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First published
2000
OL Work ID
OL2712933W

Subjects

FictionLiteratureSleep disordersNew York Times reviewedFiction, psychologicalEngland, fictionSleepFiction, general

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