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The House of Sleep

Jonathan Coe

2000 · EN

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...

Editions · 5

Paperback
1998 · Penguin
329 pp · EN
9780140250831
Paperback
1999 · Vintage Contemporaries
331 pp · EN
9780375700880
Paperback
2008 · Viking
329 pp · EN
9780141033303
Ebook
2010 · Penguin Group UK
EN
9780141918341
Paperback
2014 · Penguin Books, Limited
352 pp · EN
9780241967744

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