The house of sleep

331 pages

English language

Published Oct. 7, 1998 by Alfred Knopf.

ISBN:
978-0-375-40093-3
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Sarah is a narcoleptic who has dreams so vivid she mistakes them for real events; Robert has had his life changed for ever by the misunderstandings arising from her condition; Terry, the insomniac, spends his wakeful nights fuelling his obsession with movies; and the increasingly unstable Dr Gregory Dudden sees sleep as a life-shortening disease which must be eradicated .A group of students sharing a house. They fall in and out of love, they drift apart. Yet a decade later they are drawn back together by a series of coincidences involving their obsession with sleep - and each other...

6 editions

Subjects

  • Sleep disorders -- Fiction
  • England -- Fiction