The Coma

Alex Garland (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

168 Seiten

2004 | Main
Faber & Faber (Verlag)
978-0-571-22307-7 (ISBN)

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A young man is brutally assaulted in an underground train. 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, until he starts noticing strange leaps in his perception of time, distortions in his experience.

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. On discharge Carl 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? The Coma is the new novel from Alex Garland - a gripping mystery and stylistic tour de force that delves deep into the subconscious mind, with brilliantly disturbing results. It is illustrated with 45 woodcuts by Nicholas Garland.

Alex Garland is the author of the bestselling novels The Beach ,The Tesseract, and The Coma, which was created with images by his father Nicholas Garland. He is the co-author of the videogame, Enslaved. He has written the screenplays for 28 Days Later, Sunshine and adapted Kuzuo Ishiguro's Never Let MeGo for the screen.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.7.2004
Zusatzinfo	Illustrations
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	139 x 217 mm
Gewicht	200 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Zweisprachige Ausgaben ► Deutsch / Englisch
ISBN-10	0-571-22307-9 / 0571223079
ISBN-13	978-0-571-22307-7 / 9780571223077
Zustand	Neuware