The House Of Sleep

Winner of the Writers Guild Best Fiction Award in England and the Prix Medicisin FranceLike a surreal and highly caffeinated version of The Big Chill Jonathan C... » 

Winner of the Writers Guild Best Fiction Award in England and the Prix Medicisin FranceLike a surreal and highly caffeinated version of The Big Chill Jonathan Coesnew 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 realevents. Robert has his life changed forever by the misunderstandings that arisefrom her condition. Terry spends his wakeful nights fueling his obsession withmovies. And an increasingly unstable doctor Gregory sees sleep as a lifeshortening disease which he must eradicate.But after ten years of fretful slumber and dreams gone bad the four reunite intheir college town to confront their disorders. In a Gothic cliffside manorbeing used as a clinic for sleep disorders they discover that neither lovenor lunacy nor obsession ever rests. «