The Coma The Coma

The Coma

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Publisher Description

When Carl awakens from a coma after being attacked on a subway train, life around him feels unfamiliar, even strange. He arrives at his best friend's house without remembering how he got there; he seems to be having an affair with his secretary, which is pleasant but surprising. He starts to notice distortions in his experience, strange leaps in his perception of time. Is he truly reacting with the outside world, he wonders, or might he be terribly mistaken? So begins a dark psychological drama that raises questions about the the human psyche, dream versus reality, and the boundaries of consciousness. As Carl grapples with his predicament, Alex Garland - author of The Beach and the screenplay for 28 Days Later, plays with conventions and questions our assumptions about the way we exist in the world, even as it draws us into the unsettling and haunting book about a lost suitcase and a forgotten identity.

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2004
June 17
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
144
Pages
PUBLISHER
Penguin Publishing Group
SELLER
PENGUIN GROUP USA, INC.
SIZE
3.8
MB

Customer Reviews

Skutzz ,

Incredible

Alex Garland's writing is simply superb in this book. This was the first of his work that I read, and since then have ordered his entire catalog and read them all at least twice over. I absolutely can not wait for his next piece.

Greerski ,

I wish the sample

Was a bit longer... It's 26 pages, but there is only one page of the actual story. My sister swears by this book, but I can't commit to $12.99 if I only get one page to entice me.

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