The Coma - Brossura

Garland, Alex

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1594480850 ISBN 13: 9781594480850

Casa editrice: Riverhead Books, 2005

Riassunto

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 by original woodblock illustrations. By the author of The Beach and The Tesseract. Reprint.

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Recensione:

“Evocative... unsettling.” –The San Francisco Chronicle

“A strange, compelling ride into that realm where nothing is what it seems—and where night never really wakes up.” –The Times (London)

“Mind-bending... If you’re the kind of reader who likes perusing ten pages of a book before bed, be warned. Once you start this novel is it impossible to stop reading.” –The Cleveland Plain Dealer

“Might just be the most perfectly paces novel since Ian McEwan’s Amsterdam.” –The St. Petersburg Times

“Unputdownable... A dark and sometimes terrifying story that derives its somber beauty from the directness and precision of Garland’s writing.” –Salon.com

“Spare in its scope and piercing in its focus on subconscious metaphysics. Garland constructs a literal mind game. The Coma repeatedly pulls the rug out from under the reader, yet somehow maintains a coherent image of Carl’s mental state.” –Minneapolis Star Tribune

“Urgent and unsettling... compelling and chilling.” –The Observer

L'autore:

Alex Garland is the author of the bestselling generational classic The Beach and of The Tesseract, a national bestseller and New York Times Notable Book. He also wrote the original screenplay of the critically acclaimed film 28 Days Later. He lives in London.

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• Editore: Riverhead Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1594480850
• ISBN 13: 9781594480850
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 208