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 The House of Sleep - Jonathan Coe
 The House of Sleep - Jonathan Coe ... when we fall in love. It features Sarah who is narcoleptic, Terry, a disillusioned film critic for whom sleep is a memory, and for Dr Dunstan, sleep is nothing less than a global disease.Newest Review: ... who having had a bizarre first serious relationship with Gregory Dudden, falls in love with Veronica, a female student also ... more ... at the University. She goes on to become a teacher and seeks therapy for her sleep related problems. Gregory is a student specialising in sleep related illnesses who goes on to set up his own clinic in the Ashdown building. His fascination with Sarah's eyes when they are seeing each other deeply troubles her and he himself goes slightly mad in later life. Terry is an elitist film student, obsessed with finding lost films and sleeping 14 hours a day because he has such wonderful dreams. In later life as an esta...more |
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The House of Sleep - Jonathan Coe: You are feeling sleepy........ (437 words)
by - written on 09/08/01 (Very useful, 61 readings)
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Recommended to me by friends, I have just finished reading this book and am glad to say it was certainly NOT a big yawn! Focussed around a large coastal building called Ashdown, once university halls and now a sleep research clinic, the story follows several characters whose lives are linked by this place. The odd numbered chapters are set in 1983, the even in 1996. Switching seemlessly between past and present, we learn how the characters met and integrated at university and how their lives have turned out since and they are still strangely intertwined. The characters are Sarah, a narcoleptic who having had a bizarre first serious ... Read the complete review
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