Coe Jonathan.
The house of sleep.
Penguin, 1998, 329 p.
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Titre :
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The house of sleep
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Auteurs :
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Jonathan Coe
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Type de document :
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texte imprimé
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Éditeur
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London : Penguin, 1998
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ISBN/ISSN/EAN :
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978-0-14-025083-1
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Format :
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329 p. / 20 cm
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Note générale
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Originally published: London : Viking, 1997.
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Langues de la publication :
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Anglais
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Langues originales :
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Anglais
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Index. décimale :
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820 (Littérature anglaise)
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Mots-clés :
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sommeil
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Résumé :
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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 ...
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Nature du document :
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fiction
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Genre :
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roman
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