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The House of Sleep

Jonathan Coe

Paperback | Pages: 337 pages

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Original Title:	The House of Sleep
ISBN:	0375700889 (ISBN13: 9780375700880)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Sarah, Robert, Terry, Gregory
Setting:	London, England,1996(United Kingdom)
Literary Awards:	James Tiptree Jr. Award Nominee for Longlist (1998), Prix Médicis Etranger (1998)

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Like 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 misunderstandings that arise from her condition. Terry spends his wakeful nights fueling his obsession with movies. And an increasingly unstable doctor, Gregory, sees sleep as a life-shortening disease which he must eradicate.

But after ten years of fretful slumber and dreams gone bad, the four reunite in their college town to confront their disorders. In a Gothic cliffside manor being used as a clinic for sleep disorders, they discover that neither love, nor lunacy, nor obsession ever rests.

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Title	:	The House of Sleep
Author	:	Jonathan Coe
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Vintage Contemporaries Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 337 pages
Published	:	May 1999 by Vintage (first published 1997)
Categories	:	Fiction. Contemporary. European Literature. British Literature

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Jonathan Coe set a high standard with What a Carve Up! so I wasnt so sure that my reread of House of Sleep would live up to that book. The fact that I forgot most of it is a telltale sign. There was no need to worry. If anything The House of Sleep is equally good.Jonathan Coe is an eclectic author. Sure he does have some themes that are commonplace : politics, loves power, music and a couple of disturbing moments. However, he is clever enough to disguise them with an original plot.Sarah is

Chapters alternate between two periods a decade apart: student days (with various sleep and relationship problems) and years later as they meet up, centred on a sleep research establishment that is in the house they once shared as students. What at first appears to be a straightforward tale of students growing up turns out to be much more sinister.

Oh my freakin' duck! This book is how I've imagined LSD on bread would be like. This book is life (now I sound like a tumblrer), everything and the reason why I love reading! I live for this kind of books! Something like this of such majesty, fervour, ingenious depth has to be felt and steered perpetually from end to end of oneself. As those being said, Jonathan Coe is a master of mind tricks enclosed by words and brought to surface by the body's trembling. Left with tears flooding my eyes on

A clever, fascinatingly plotted novel, House of Sleep had all the ingredients of a potentially great novel. Well-drawn, intriguing characters, at times vividly descriptive I did enjoy it.However, I did feel kept at a distance. The multiple viewpoint third person narrative gave it a cinematic quality (apt in many ways, I know) that -- and this is more to do with personal preference -- didn't allow me all the way "in". I have a well-established dislike of novels that switch viewpoint mid-scene, I

A giddy, satirical frolic through a delightfully convoluted plot - seesawing back and forth through time, through intertwined characters, in and out of dreams. There are some dazzlingly fun stretches of writing - like the movie review in which a single missing footnote creates a cascade of seven libel suits; Coe knows how to mock the Zeitgeist without seeming didactic. Other people have complained that some of the characters seemed formless in comparison to the intricate structure of the plot. I

"The House of Sleep" provides a unique reading experience, that's for sure. Its very structure resembles sleep, as the chapters are named after the stages one goes through when sleeping. Hence, reading it, you actually feel like sinking into a restless sleep full of dreams. Coe has made a hell of a job with the characters. Each has their own path to follow, their own issues, fears and complications. Yet they affect each other's lives in extraordinary manners. One thing they all have in common

Meh Although I was attracted by the subject (sleep disorders) and I was able to appreciate the structure, I think it falls short on building plausible, interesting characters that readers can get attached to (except for Sarah, maybe). I didnt find it witty, as I knew from other reviews I was supposed to (it failed to get me to be remotely amused, with the exception of very few instances), but rather gothic, and ultimately, it kind of pushed my tolerance to implausibility.