Devil in a Coma
On sale
12th March 2026
Price: £10.99
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Diaries, Letters & Journals / Individual Composers & Musicians, Specific Bands & Groups / Memoirs / Rock & Pop Music
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Paperback / ISBN-13: 9781399636384
FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF SING BACKWARDS AND WEEP
‘Expressionistic and visceral . . . exhilarating and unexpectedly funny’ THE I PAPER
Poetic, raw, hallucinogenic and darkly witty, Devil in a Coma charts Mark Lanegan’s terrifying, mind-expanding experience of acute illness and the confrontation it forces with mortality itself.
Struck down by Covid-19, drifting in and out of a coma, unable to walk and given little hope of survival, these diaries see Lanegan assaulted by nightmares, visions and regrets about an existence lived on the edge of chaos and disorder. In arresting prose and at times transcendent poetry, Devil in a Coma is one man’s intimate reckoning with a lifetime spent cheating death.
‘Expressionistic and visceral . . . exhilarating and unexpectedly funny’ THE I PAPER
Poetic, raw, hallucinogenic and darkly witty, Devil in a Coma charts Mark Lanegan’s terrifying, mind-expanding experience of acute illness and the confrontation it forces with mortality itself.
Struck down by Covid-19, drifting in and out of a coma, unable to walk and given little hope of survival, these diaries see Lanegan assaulted by nightmares, visions and regrets about an existence lived on the edge of chaos and disorder. In arresting prose and at times transcendent poetry, Devil in a Coma is one man’s intimate reckoning with a lifetime spent cheating death.
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Reviews
Lanegan doesn't tread softly or treat himself easily. Maintaining the commitment to the unvarnished truth of Sing Backwards..., he presents himself as a nightmare hospital patient and a flawed human being. But shades of humour illuminate the darkness judiciously
Devil in a Coma offers a pleasingly bitter counterpoint to the clap-for-carers mood of the times
This slight but weighty volume only adds to the man's muscular and vivid - in every sense of the word - body of work
Compelling . . . When he eventually does sing again, Mark Lanegan has the record of a lifetime to make
This latest title is a must-have for Lanegan fans, or anyone left hungry for more of his pitch-black wit
Shades of humour illuminate the dark judiciously.
Devil in a Coma is fired by Lanegan's expressionistic prose and visceral poetry . . . his writing is exhilarating and unexpectedly funny