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The Coma
The Coma | Alex Garland
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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.
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msc1977
The Coma | Alex Garland

Hello everyone. Looking for new authors is sometimes hit and miss.
Who are some of your favorite authors?

Shemac77 Oooh! Barbara Kingsolver, Hemingway, Oliver Sacks, Louise Penney, Alan Bradley. 7y
Shemac77 And Tom Robbins and Christopher Moore 7y
msc1977 @Shemac77 I love Christopher Moore. 7y
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JillR Reliable authors for me (i.e. I enjoy their every book) are Kate Atkinson, Maggie O'Farrell, Sadie Jones, Khaled Hosseini... I'm sure there are more, but these are the ones who come to mind who have never let me down... :) 7y
msc1977 @JillR @Shemac77 thank you, I will look into them. 7y
BooksAndChopsticks Paul Auster, Phillip Pullman, John Steinbeck, Mark Haddon, Andrew Kaufmann 🤓 7y
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BarbaraBB
Coma | Alex Garland
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A nice designed book without page numbers but with lots of pictures, drawn by Nicholas Garland - family no doubt. Carl gets into a coma after being beaten up by some men in the subway. After recovering and coming home strange things start to happen. Is it his memory? Is it his conscience? Or is he dreaming, still in a coma?
Nothing is what it seems, which make this book intriguing and absurd at the same time. Well written!

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