Winner of the Writers' Guild Best Fiction Award in England and the Prix M dicis in France

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.

Author: Jonathan Coe
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Published: 04/27/1999
Series: Vintage International
Pages: 352
Weight: 0.6lbs
Size: 8.02h x 5.19w x 0.79d
ISBN: 9780375700880


Review Citation(s):
New York Times 07/27/1999 pg. 32

About the Author
Born in 1961, Jonathan Coe took degrees from Cambridge and Warwick universities. He lives in London.