Coma

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Author(s):

Robin Cook

First Pub:

1977

Genre(s):

Fiction; Suspense; Thriller

First Read:

1980

Times Read:

1 time

Rating:

Subject(s):

Boston (Mass.) - Fiction
Coma - Patients - Fiction
Fiction in English
Hospital patients - Fiction
Medical novels
Suspense fiction

Chapters:

See 40

Prologue - February 14, 1976

Monday February 23 7:15 A.M.

Monday February 23 7:30 A.M.

Monday February 23 9:00 A.M.

Monday February 23 10:15 A.M.

Monday February 23 11:15 A.M.

Monday February 23 7:15 A.M.

Monday February 23 11:40 A.M.

Monday February 23 12:10 P.M.

Monday February 23 12:16 P.M.

Monday February 23 12:34 P.M.

Monday February 23 1:35 P.M.

Monday February 23 1:53 P.M.

Monday February 23 2:45 P.M.

Monday February 23 3:36 P.M.

Monday February 23 5:05 P.M.

Monday February 23 6:55 P.M.

Monday February 23 8:32 P.M.

Tuesday February 24 8:05 A.M.

Tuesday February 24 10:48 A.M.

Tuesday February 24 11:00 A.M.

Tuesday February 24 11:45 A.M.

Tuesday February 24 2:30 P.M.

Tuesday February 24 7:20 P.M.

Wednesday February 25 5:45 A.M.

Wednesday February 25 11:15 A.M.

Wednesday February 25 1:30 P.M.

Wednesday February 25 4:30 P.M.

Wednesday February 25 7:15 P.M.

Wednesday February 25 10:41 P.M.

Wednesday February 25 11:25 P.M.

Thursday February 26 1:00 A.M.

Thursday February 26 2:11 A.M.

Thursday February 26 10:41 A.M.

Thursday February 26 4:23 P.M.

Thursday February 26 5:20 P.M.

Thursday February 26 5:47 P.M.

Thursday February 26 8:10 P.M.

Thursday February 26 8:47 P.M.

Thursday February 26 11:51 P.M.

Internal ID:

1313

Series:

No series

Copyright:

Dedication:

In memory of my father,
recognition of my mother,
and thanks to Sharron.

First Sentence:

Nancy Greenly lay on the operating table on her back, staring up at the large kettledrum-shaped lights in operating room No. 8, trying to be calm.

Last Sentence:

May contain spoilers

Something was very wrong.

Comments:

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Added: 03-Jul-2006

Last Updated: 03-Apr-2023

Publications

01-Dec-1977

Signet

Mass Market Paperback

Date Issued:

Cir 01-Dec-1977

Format:

Mass Market Paperback

Cover Price:

$2.50

Pages*:

305

Catalog ID:

E7881

Read:

Once

Cover Link(s):

World Cat

amazon.com

Internal ID:

1378

Publisher:

Signet

ISBN:

0-451-07881-0

ISBN-13:

978-0-451-07881-0

Printing:

Country:

United States

Language:

English

Credits:

Paul Bacon - Cover Artist

"A CHILLING, FAST-MOVING, SUSPENSE THRILLER... UN-PUT-DOWNABLE!" - BOSTON GLOBE

The call it "minor surgery," but Nancy Greenly, Sean Berman, and a dozen others, all admitted to Memorial Hospital for routine procedures, are victims of the same inexplicable, hideous tragedy on the operating table. They never wake up again.

Some traceless error in anesthesia has caused irreversible brain death, leaving each of them in a hopeless coma.

Something is wrong here. And Susan Wheeler, a beautiful young medical student, hazards her life to uncover the horrifying explanation - a plot so ghastly, so far-reaching, so terrifyingly incredible, yet so nightmarishly possible it will leave you suspended in a state of fear....

COMA

"UNNERVING... WILL LOWER YOUR TEMPERATURE!"
- NEWSWEEK

"STRIKES A DEAFENING CHORD OF TERROR!"
- WASHINGTON POST

A MAIN SELECTION OF THE LITERARY GUILD

NEW AMERICAN PUBLISHES SIGNET, MENTOR, PLUME & MERIDIAN BOOKS

Cover:

Notes and Comments:

First Signet Printing, December, 1977
Fifth printing based on the number line

Read this in junior high. My mother or father bought the book. I'm not sure if they even read it. I have never seen the movie either - I don't think I was allowed to at the time.

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Author(s)

Robin Cook
Birth: 04 May 1940 Queens, New York, USA

Notes:

From "About the Author" in the novel Coma:

Robin Cook lives in Boston where he is a practicing ophthalmologist and Clinical Instructor at Harvard Medical School. He is a graduate of Wesleyan University and the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University. Dr. Cook is a multifaceted writer whose publications include many scientific articles as well as the NAL publication The Year of the Intern.

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