The coma

Resource Information

The work The coma represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Internet Archive - Open Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

The coma

Statement of responsibility

Alex Garland ; images by Nicholas Garland

Creator

• Garland, Alex, 1970-

Contributor

• Garland, Nicholas

Subject

• Psychological fiction
• Mystery
• Coma -- Patients -- Fiction

Genre

• Fiction
• Mystery
• Psychological fiction

Language

eng

Summary

"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 boundaries of consciousness." "As Carl grapples with his predicament, The Coma plays with conventions, and questions our assumptions about the way we exist in the world, even as it draws us into the unsettling and suspenseful story of a lost suitcase and a forgotten identity."--BOOK JACKET

Cataloging source

AU@

Dewey number

• 823/.914
• 823.92

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

LC call number

PR6057.A639

LC item number

C66 2004

Literary form

fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Target audience

adult