The Coma

The Coma by Alex Garland, read by Matthew Macfadyen

Publisher: Penguin Books Limited, 2005
Length: 1 hour and 56 min.

Publisher's Summary

From the internationally-known author of The Beach, a gripping mystery and stylistic tour de force that delves into the subconscious mind, with brilliantly disturbing results. A young man is brutally assaulted late at night in an underground train by a gang of thugs. Beaten unconscious, he lies for days in a hospital bed, but appears to make a full recovery. On discharge from hospital, Carl picks up the threads of his daily life, visiting friends, seeing his girlfriend, until he starts to notice strange leaps in his perception of time, distortions in his experience. Is he truly reacting with the outside world, or might he be terribly mistaken? So begins a dark psychological drama that raises profound questions about the boundary between the real and the imagined.

©2004 Alex Garland; (P)2004 Penguin Books Ltd.

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