All Families Are Psychotic
Author: Douglas Coupland
On the eve of the next Space Shuttle mission, a divided family comes together… Warm, witty and wise, All Families Are Psychotic is Coupland at the very top of his form: ‘Irresistibly hilarious, unique and wonderful’ Independent on Sunday In a cheap motel an hour from Cape Canaveral, Janet Drummond takes her medication, and does a rapid tally of the whereabouts of her chi….Read More
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Eleanor Rigby
Liz Dunn is one of the world’s lonely people. She’s in her late thirties and has a boring cubicle job at a communications company, doing work that is only slightly… Continue Reading Posted in: Contemporary Literature & Fiction, Fiction, High School Seniors, Single Women
Blackbox
Meet an apparently disparate group of people, all of whom are linked to the tragic death of a stowaway in 1978. Twenty-three years later, and despite their attempts to build… Continue Reading Posted in: Contemporary Literature & Fiction, England Birmingham, Flight Recorders, Stowaways
Miss Wyoming
Miss Wyoming is a novel by Douglas Coupland. It was first published by Random House of Canada in January 2000. The novel follows two protagonists, Susan Colgate, a former Miss… Continue Reading Posted in: Beauty Contestants, Fiction, Mothers And Daughters
Hey Nostradamus!
The story of one family piecing itself back together after a tragic highschool shooting, Hey Nostradamus! is Douglas Coupland's most soulful, piercing and searching novel yet. Pregnant and secretly married,… Continue Reading Posted in: Authors, Canadian, Canadian Fiction, High School Seniors
Garden State: A Novel
On the occasion of the paperback release of Demonology, Back Bay Books takes pleasure in making all four of Rick Moody's acclaimed earlier works of fiction available in handsome new… Continue Reading Posted in: Literary Fiction, Musical Fiction, Teenagers
The Demon
Harry White is a man haunted by a satyr's lust and an obsessive need for sin and retribution. The more Harry succeeds -- a good marriage, a good corporate job… Continue Reading Posted in: Contemporary Urban Fiction, Fiction, Psychological Fiction, Sex Addiction
Lemprière’s Dictionary
As the seventeenth century opens, a band of venturers forms the Honourable Company of Merchants trading from England to the East Indies. In France, the siege of La Rochelle ends… Continue Reading Posted in: Biographical Literary Fiction, English Fiction, Financial Thrillers, History, Lexicographers
Girlfriend in a Coma
Girls, memory, parenting, millennial fear -- all served Coupland-style. Karen, an attractive, popular student, goes into a coma one night in 1979. Whilst in it, she gives birth to a… Continue Reading Posted in: Canadian Fiction, Coma Patients, Contemporary Literature & Fiction, Patients
The Gum Thief
The first and only story of love and looming apocalypse set in the aisles of an office supply superstore. In Douglas Coupland's ingenious new novel--sort of a Clerks meets Who's… Continue Reading Posted in: American Literature, Diary Fiction, Divorced Men, General Humorous Fiction, Intergenerational Relations
In Search of Captain Zero: A Surfer’s Road Trip Beyond the End of the Road
In 1996, Allan Weisbecker sold his home and his possessions, loaded his dog and surfboards into his truck, and set off in search of his long-time surfing companion, Patrick, who… Continue Reading Posted in: A. C. (Allan C.), Caving & Spelunking, Central America, Surfing, Weisbecker
Nymphomation
Set both in a real and imaginary Manchester, Jeff Noon's story concerns a revolutionary lottery game that is engulfing the city in a tide of gambling fever. As a group of… Continue Reading Posted in: Cyberpunk Science Fiction, Fiction, Magic Realism (Literature), Steampunk Fiction
Life After God
This collection of stories cuts through the hype of modern living, travelling inward to the elusive terrain of dreams and nightmares. Continue Reading Posted in: Contemporary Religious Fiction, Fiction, Literature, Religious Fiction Short Stories
One Of Us
Hap Thompson - ex-barman, ex-hood and ex-husband - has fallen on his feet at last. He's finally found something he can do better than anyone else. And it's legal. Almost.Hap's… Continue Reading Posted in: Ficton, Psychological Thrillers, Recovered Memory, Suspense Fiction, Suspense Thrillers
Shampoo Planet
Tyler Johnson is a 20-year-old MTV child. Once a baby raised in a hippie commune, he is now an ambitious Reagan youth dreaming of a career with the corporation whose… Continue Reading Posted in: American Fiction, American Literature, Black Humor (Literature), Dark Humor
Clown Girl
Drake has created a novel that blends the high comedy of early film stars--most notably Chaplin and W.C. Fields--to raise questions of class, gender, economics, and prejudice. Resisting easy classification,… Continue Reading Posted in: Dark Humor, Electronic Books, Fiction, Fiction Satire
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