Coma
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2004
Faber & Faber (Verlag)
978-0-571-22308-4 (ISBN)
Faber & Faber (Verlag)
978-0-571-22308-4 (ISBN)
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A young man is brutally assaulted in an underground train. Beaten unconscious, he lies for days in a hospital bed - but appears to make a full recovery. On discharge from hospital, Carl picks up the threads of his daily life, until he starts noticing strange leaps in his perception of time, distortions in his experience.
Carl is brutally assaulted in an underground train while protecting a young woman from a gang of thugs. Beaten unconscious he lies for days in a hospital bed - but appears to make a full recovery. On discharge from hospital Carl picks up the threads of his daily life, visiting friends, seeing his girlfriend - until he starts to notice strange leaps in time, distortions in his experience. Is he truly interacting with the outside world, or could he still be in the coma? So begins a dark pschological drama of the unconscious that raises profound questions about the boundary between the real and the imagined.
Carl is brutally assaulted in an underground train while protecting a young woman from a gang of thugs. Beaten unconscious he lies for days in a hospital bed - but appears to make a full recovery. On discharge from hospital Carl picks up the threads of his daily life, visiting friends, seeing his girlfriend - until he starts to notice strange leaps in time, distortions in his experience. Is he truly interacting with the outside world, or could he still be in the coma? So begins a dark pschological drama of the unconscious that raises profound questions about the boundary between the real and the imagined.
Alex Garland is the author of the novels, The Beach and The Tesseract, as well as for the screenplay for 28 Days Later. Nicholas Garland has been the political cartoonist of the Daily Telegraph since 1966.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 1.7.2004 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 144 x 222 mm |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen |
| ISBN-10 | 0-571-22308-7 / 0571223087 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-571-22308-4 / 9780571223084 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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