Notes From A Coma

Author : Mike McCormack
Publisher : Canongate Books
ISBN 13 : 1786891425
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Notes from a Coma written by Mike McCormack and published by Canongate Books. This book was released on 2017-07-06 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After suffering a catastrophic breakdown, J.J. O'Malley volunteers for a government project exploring the possibility of using coma as a means to keep prisoners under control. Floating in a maintained coma on a prison ship off the west coast of Ireland, his coma goes viral and the nation turns to watch. Brilliantly imagined and artfully constructed - merging science fiction with an affectionate portrait of small town Ireland - Notes from a Coma is a compassionate examination of a man cursed with guilt and genius.

Author : Mike McCormack
Publisher : Soho Press
ISBN 13 : 1616952334
Total Pages : 167 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Notes from a Coma written by Mike McCormack and published by Soho Press. This book was released on 2013-03-05 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rescued from the squalor of a Romanian orphanage, and adopted by the rural community of west Mayo, J. J. O'Malley should have grown up happy. The boy has no gift for it, though, and his new life has a brutal way of giving him plenty to be unhappy about. After a sudden tragedy, J. J. suffers a catastrophic mental breakdown. Unable to live with himself, he volunteers for an improbable government project which has been set up to explore the possibility of using deep coma as a future option within the EU penal system. When his coma goes online the nation turns to watch, and J. J. is quickly elevated to the status of cultural icon. Sex symbol, existential hero, T-shirt philosopher─his public profile now threatens to obscure the man himself behind a swirl of media profiles, online polls, and EEG tracings. Five narrators─his father, neighbour, teacher, public representative, and sweetheart─tell us the true story of his life and try to give some clue as to why he is the way he is now: floating in a maintained coma on a prison ship off the west coast of Ireland. Brilliantly imagined and artfully constructed─merging science fiction with an affectionate portrait of small town Ireland─Notes from a Coma is both the story of a man cursed with guilt and genius and a compassionate examination of how our identities are safeguarded and held in trust by those who love us.

Author : Alex Garland
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9781594480850
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Coma written by Alex Garland and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2005-07-05 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 the human psyche, dream versus reality, and the boundaries of consciousness. As Carl grapples with his predicament, Alex Garland - author of The Beach and the screenplay for 28 Days Later, plays with conventions and questions our assumptions about the way we exist in the world, even as it draws us into the unsettling and haunting book about a lost suitcase and a forgotten identity.

Author : Alice Feeney
Publisher : Flatiron Books
ISBN 13 : 1250144833
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sometimes I Lie written by Alice Feeney and published by Flatiron Books. This book was released on 2018-03-13 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My name is Amber Reynolds. There are three things you should know about me: 1. I’m in a coma. 2. My husband doesn’t love me anymore. 3. Sometimes I lie. Amber wakes up in a hospital. She can’t move. She can’t speak. She can’t open her eyes. She can hear everyone around her, but they have no idea. Amber doesn’t remember what happened, but she has a suspicion her husband had something to do with it. Alternating between her paralyzed present, the week before her accident, and a series of childhood diaries from twenty years ago, this brilliant psychological thriller asks: Is something really a lie if you believe it's the truth?

Author : Mike McCormack
Publisher : Canongate Books
ISBN 13 : 178689128X
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Solar Bones written by Mike McCormack and published by Canongate Books. This book was released on 2017-02-01 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD WINNER OF THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE BGE IRISH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2016 Marcus Conway has come a long way to stand in the kitchen of his home and remember the rhythms and routines of his life. Considering with his engineer's mind how things are constructed - bridges, banking systems, marriages - and how they may come apart. Mike McCormack captures with tenderness and feeling, in continuous, flowing prose, a whole life, suspended in a single hour.

Author : Nadia Judith Bijaoui
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780976258247
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Other Side of the Curtain written by Nadia Judith Bijaoui and published by . This book was released on 2017-08-07 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Other Side of The Curtain, an amazing story of coma survival after an accident in France, is a search for truth beyond being a miracle. The author found 7 elements starting in her childhood that made it a reality instead of a fatal statistic. Years later, she understood why it happened. Finally, she learned to transcend her pains into growing, teaching, & transmitting through BioHealthEdu.com

Author : Douglas Coupland
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062105957
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Girlfriend in a Coma written by Douglas Coupland and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2011-06-14 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a snowy Friday night in 1979, just hours after making love for the first time, Richard's girlfriend, high school senior Karen Ann McNeil, falls into a coma. Nine months later she gives birth to their daughter, Megan. As Karen sleeps through the next seventeen years, Richard and their circle of friends reside in an emotional purgatory, passing through a variety of careers—modeling, film special effects, medicine, demolition—before finally reuniting on a conspiracy-driven super-natural television series. But real life grows as surreal as their TV show as Richard and his friends await Karen's reawakening . . . and the subsequent apocalypse.

Author : Jerome B. Posner
Publisher : OUP USA
ISBN 13 : 0195321316
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Plum and Posner's Diagnosis of Stupor and Coma written by Jerome B. Posner and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2007-06-11 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clifford B. Saper, Chair of Neurology at Harvard Medical School, and Nicholas D. Schiff of Weill Medical College in NY join the original authors to thoroughly update this seminal text with over 90% new material. the goal of the new edition is to provide a clinically slanted volume that will help the reader understand and diagnose severe brain dysfunction both as it exists and as it evolves in the seriously ill. the book remains a treatise on pathophysiology because recent imaging, electrophysiologic, and biochemical technologies (discussed in the book) are by themselves insufficient substitute

Author : Primo Levi
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393064681
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Tranquil Star written by Primo Levi and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2007 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first English publication of 17 classic Primo Levi stories marks the 20thanniversary of his death.

Author : Gordon Bryan Young
Publisher : McGraw Hill Professional
ISBN 13 : 9780070723719
Total Pages : 722 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Coma and Impaired Consciousness written by Gordon Bryan Young and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 1998 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive resource examines every aspect of coma, including r elated anatomy, physiology, neurochemistry and pharmacology, new diagn ostic and therapeutic approaches, and decision making--and presents a clear clinical and investigative approach to the syndromes of impaired consciousness. It's unqiue blending of neuroscience with sound clinic al practice and modern management strategies creates a text that's emi nently useful in daily practice, providing effective management strate gies that respect medical, legal and ethical principles. More than a s cholarly text, this title addresses the hottest topics in the field in cluding side effects of modern therapies, new techniques for clinical examination, new methods of management in the ICU and much more.