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Waking Samuel
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Daniel Coyle (Goodreads Author)
An emotional and startlingly honest thriller about loss and redemption.
He is known only as the tall man, a victim of a gunshot wound discovered on a remote beach northwest of Seattle. Motionless and nearly mute, he lies saintlike in his hospital bed, tended vigilantly by his nurse, Sara Black. Sara is struggling to recover a loss of her own-a car accident that killed her ...more
He is known only as the tall man, a victim of a gunshot wound discovered on a remote beach northwest of Seattle. Motionless and nearly mute, he lies saintlike in his hospital bed, tended vigilantly by his nurse, Sara Black. Sara is struggling to recover a loss of her own-a car accident that killed her ...more
Hardcover, 304 pages
Published
September 8th 2003
by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
(first published January 1st 2003)
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By chance, I read two books about coma in a row. Unlike the last one, this one was great. In particular, I thought the characters were interesting and easy to get to know. I have so much in common with the main character, Sara: like me, she is balancing her ideas of childhood against mass popular culture, and she is trying to raise her preschooler to have his own independent non-corporate ideas about the world. Which is to say that, like me, she is stubborn, worried, over-thinking things, and a ...more
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Author of the New York Times bestseller Lance Armstrong’s War, Hardball: A Season in the Projects, Waking Samuel, and most recently The Talent Code. Coyle has written for Sports Illustrated, Play, and the New York Times Magazine. His work has appeared multiple times in Best American Sports Writing, and he is a two-time National Magazine Award finalist. He lives in Homer, Alaska, with his wife Jen...more
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