Riverhead Books The coma/alex garland

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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 dra.