The House of Sleep
Author: Jonathan Coe
Winner of the Writers’ Guild Best Fiction Award in England and the Prix Médicis in FranceLike a surreal and highly caffeinated version of The Big Chill, Jonathan Coe’s new novel follows four students who knew each other in college in the eighties. Sarah is a narcoleptic who has dreams so vivid she mistakes them for real events. Robert has his life changed forever by the mi….Read More
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