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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 psychological drama of the unconscious, a brilliant stylistic tour de force that raises profound questions about the boundary between the real and the imagined.
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"'The Coma is an unpaginated descent into a hall of mirrors, wherein the writer wants to play games with your head... it's a chilly mood piece - its shadowy tone redolent of Poe and Kafka (and its murky imaginative contours heightened by a series of dark woodcut illustrations by Garland's father)... a strange compelling ride into that realm where nothing is what it seems - and where night never really wakes up.' Douglas Kennedy, The Times 'It's a great story to read, but also a lovely visual object to possess.' Design Week 'Compelling and chilling... his father's illustrations heighten the oddness' Observer"
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The Coma by Alex Garland is a gripping mystery and stylistic tour de force from the internationally known author of The Beach.
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- PublisherFaber & Faber
- Publication date2004
- ISBN 10 0571223095
- ISBN 13 9780571223091
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages168
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: As New. Nicholas Garland (illustrator). Signed Limited Numbered. A fine unread Signed Limited edition. Signed by Alex & Nicholas Garland. Bound in grey boards & spine bound in black cloth with paper label. Housed in a fine slipcase. Number 269 of an edition of 250 copies numbered from 51-300 (numbers 1-50 include a limited edition woodcut). Expect extra postage. Signed by Author & Illustrator. Seller Inventory # 005277
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Book Description Limited edition. Large format. One of 300 copies signed by the author and his father, Nicholas Garland, who illustrated the book. Fine in slip case.There is no image of this title as it is too large to scan. Seller Inventory # 7080
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