- Coma, Patients, Fiction, Fiction, psychological
Having been attacked on the Underground, a man wakes up in a hospital and begins to question his emergence from a coma.
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Contemporary, grave, earnest and classical in form.
- contemporarynostalgic
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- intimateepic
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About the book
- Author
- Alex Garland
- First published
- 2004
- Pages
- 200
- Publisher
- Riverhead Books, Riverhead Trade, ĖKSMO
- Editions
- 7
- Language
- Russian, English
- ISBN
- 9780571227129
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First sentence
“Until the telephone rang, the only sound in my office was the scratching of my pen as I made margin notes, corrections, and amendments.”
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