The book of dreams : a novel
A bus accident puts Henri Skinner into the hospital in a coma. As his son Sam waits by his bedside, there are two other people there, all facing the ravages of loss and first love side by side.
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Coma > Patients > Fiction. Fathers and sons > Fiction. Traffic accidents > Fiction. |
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Novels. Psychological fiction. Audiobooks. Sound recordings. |
- ISBN: 9781984845177
- Physical Description 9 audio discs (approximately 10 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
- Edition Unabridged.
- Publisher [New York] : Random House Audio, [2019]
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General Note: | Title from web page. Compact discs. GMD: sound recording. |
Participant or Performer Note: | Read by Steve West, Elizabeth Knowelden and Xalvador Tin-Bradbury. |
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The Book of Dreams : A Novel
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The Book of Dreams : A Novel
Warm, wise, and magical--the latest novel by the bestselling author of THE LITTLE PARIS BOOKSHOP and THE LITTLE FRENCH BISTRO is an astonishing exploration of the thresholds between life and death Henri Skinner is a hardened ex-war reporter on the run from his past. On his way to see his son, Sam, for the first time in years, Henri steps into the road without looking and collides with oncoming traffic. He is rushed to a nearby hospital where he floats, comatose, between dreams, reliving the fairytales of his childhood and the secrets that made him run away in the first place. After the accident, Sam--a thirteen-year old synesthete with an IQ of 144 and an appetite for science fiction--waits by his father's bedside every day. There he meets Eddie Tomlin, a woman forced to confront her love for Henri after all these years, and twelve-year old Madelyn Zeidler, a coma patient like Henri and the sole survivor of a traffic accident that killed her family. As these four very different individuals fight--for hope, for patience, for life--they are bound together inextricably, facing the ravages of loss and first love side by side. A revelatory, urgently human story that examines what we consider serious and painful alongside light and whimsy, THE BOOK OF DREAMS is a tender meditation on memory, liminality, and empathy, asking with grace and gravitas what we will truly find meaningful in our lives once we are gone.