Life After God
Author: Douglas Coupland
This collection of stories cuts through the hype of modern living, travelling inward to the elusive terrain of dreams and nightmares…..Read More
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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
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
Cocaine Nights
‘Snort up “Cocaine Nights”. It’s disorientating, deranging and knocks the work of other avant-garde writers into a hatted cock’ Will SelfFive people die in an unexplained house fire in the… Continue Reading Posted in: British, Contemporary Literature & Fiction, English Fiction, Murder
Polaroids From The Dead
A collection of essays by Douglas Coupland, whose first novel Generation X received critical acclaim. In his mid-30s, Coupland writes about what it means to grow up and the realization… Continue Reading Posted in: Contemporary Short Stories, Popular Culture, Short Stories, Social Aspects
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
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
Glamorama
The author of American Psycho and Less Than Zero continues to shock and haunt us with his incisive and brilliant dissection of the modern world.In his most ambitious and gripping… Continue Reading Posted in: New York (State) New York, Political Fiction, Suspense Fiction
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
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
Rules Of Attraction
This novel offers a satirical yet bleak vision of the modern world - a world devoted to conspicuous consumption and consumer-as-king culture - and highlights the feelings of futility and… Continue Reading Posted in: English Fiction, Manners And Customs, United States
Speaking with the Angel
A dozen of the most successful and popular writers today including: Helen Fielding, Robert Harris, Patrick Marber, Zadie Smith, John O'Farrell, Roddy Doyle, Melissa Bank and Irvine Welsh have written… Continue Reading Posted in: American, Fiction, Monologues, Short Stories, Short Stories Anthologies
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
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
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
The Coma
After being attacked on the Underground, Carl awakens from a coma to a life that seems strange and unfamiliar. He arrives at his friends' house without knowing how he got… Continue Reading Posted in: Illustrated Books England 2003, Psychological Fiction
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