The Coma - Hardcover

Garland, Alex

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1573222739 ISBN 13: 9781573222730

Publisher: Riverhead Books, 2004

Synopsis

Having been attacked on the Underground, a man wakes up in a hospital and begins to question his emergence from a coma, in a tale complemented with original woodblock illustrations. By the author of The Beach and The Tesseract. 50,000 first printing.

About this title

Review:

"'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"

Book Description:

The Coma by Alex Garland is a gripping mystery and stylistic tour de force from the internationally known author of The Beach.

About this edition

• Publisher: Riverhead Books
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1573222739
• ISBN 13: 9781573222730
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 200
• Illustrator: Garland Nicholas