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The House of Sleep - Jonathan Coe''s comic tale of love and obsession

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 Sleep is 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 mak

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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Penguin Books Ltd
      Published 26 June 2014
      ISBN-13 9780241967744
      978-0241967744
      ISBN-10 0241967740
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      The House of Sleep - Jonathan Coe''s comic tale of love and obsession

      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 Sleep is 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 mak

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