A review by becka6131
The House of Sleep by Jonathan Coe

5.0

I don't even know what to say about this book. I finished it five minutes ago and I'm as emotionally devastated as I ever have been by a novel, and I can't even pinpoint exactly why. I think it's that Coe conjures up the feeling of loss, the misery of it and the awful hope that it might be reversible, and permeates the entire narrative in it. Honestly though I am so deeply touched that I don't think I can be remotely objective; even now I'm thinking that Gregory's storyline was the weakest and least organic of the lot, but that's still not enough to knock it down to four stars. Read this book, for God's sake.