JPod
Author: Douglas Coupland
Already dubbed Microserfs 2.0 by some pundits–a winking allusion to Douglas Coupland’s previous novel Microserfs, which similarly chronicled pop-culture-damaged twentysomething misfits flailing, foundering, and occasionally succeeding in the high-tech sector–JPod is, like all of Coupland’s novels, a byproduct of its era and yet strangely detached from it. Only this time….Read More
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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
Microserfs
Narrated in the form of a Powerbook entry by Dan Underwood, a computer programmer for Microsoft, this state-of-the-art novel about life in the '90s follows the adventures of six code-crunching… Continue Reading Posted in: Canada, Computer Software Industry Employees, English Fiction
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
13’99 euros
Novela cruel, panfleto insolente y alegato contra la manipulación consumista, "13’99 euros" se convirtió en un auténtico fenómeno de masas en Francia, uno de los mayores best-sellers de los últimos… Continue Reading Posted in: Contemporary, Cultural, Fiction
All Families Are Psychotic
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… Continue Reading Posted in: Action & Adventure Literary Fiction, Canadian Fiction, Dysfunctional Families, Family, Saga Fiction
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
Black Hole
And you thought your adolescence was scary.Suburban Seattle, the mid-1970s. We learn from the out-set that a strange plague has descended upon the area's teenagers, transmitted by sexual contact. The… Continue Reading Posted in: Fiction, Horror Graphic Novels, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Washington (State) Seattle
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
Brightness Falls
Brightness Falls is the story of Russell and Corrine Calloway. Set against the world of New York publishing, McInerney provides a stunningly accomplished portrayal of people contending with early success,… Continue Reading Posted in: English Fiction, Manners And Customs, United States
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
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
Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture
Generation X is Douglas Coupland's acclaimed salute to the generation born in the late 1950s and 1960s--a generation known vaguely up to then as "twentysomething."Andy, Claire, and Dag, each in… Continue Reading Posted in: American Wit And Humor, Canadian Fiction, Contemporary Literature & Fiction, Teen & Young Adult Books, United States
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