Book review: All in the mind: A vision of hell in which all torments are interior

The characters in 'The Sleepers' drift on seas of sadness and self-loathing, coupling and decoupling, riding out storms of anxiety that exhaust them further
Book review: All in the mind: A vision of hell in which all torments are interior

Matthew Gasda: We find ourselves invested in the author’s whining, bickering selfish monads — is there something of them in all of us?

  • The Sleepers 
  • Matthew Gasda 
  • Arcade, $14.99

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