This collection of stories cuts through the hype of modern living, travelling inward to the elusive terrain of dreams and nightmares.[...]
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 offices his mother once firebombed.[...]
Very evil Very funny. A lethal joyride into today's new breed of technogeeks, Coupland's novel updates Microserfs for the age of Google.[...]
Roger is a middle-aged and divorced 'aisles associate' at a Staples outlet. His co-worker Bethany is facing fifty more years of shelving Post-it notes. Then Bethany discovers Roger's notebook and finds that he's writing diary entries pretending to be her - and weirdly, he's getting it right. Bethany[...]
Coupland, with Magnum photographer Olivia Arthur, reports from inside Alcatel's faceless corporate offices and wire-laden science labs, writing in his inimitably playful and insightful way about the wider cultural implications of the Internet and the affect Alcatel's information technology has on ea[...]
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Generation A "is set in the near future in a world where bees are extinct, until five unconnected people all around the world-- in the United States, Canada, France, New Zealand, and Sri Lanka--are all stung. Their shared experience unites them in ways they never could have imagined.
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A razor-sharp portrait of a morally bankrupt and gleefully wicked modern man, Worst. Person. Ever. is Doug Coupland's gloriously filthy, side-splittingly funny and unforgettable new novel. Worst. Person. Ever. is a deeply unworthy book about a dreadful human being with absolutely no redeeming social[...]
A razor-sharp portrait of a morally bankrupt and gleefully wicked modern man, Worst. Person. Ever. is Doug Coupland's gloriously filthy, side-splittingly funny and unforgettable new novel. Worst. Person. Ever. is a deeply unworthy book about a dreadful human being with absolutely no redeeming social[...]
She is a former child beauty pageant contender. He is a hard-living movie producer. She walks away from a plane crash without so much as a scratch. He comes away from a near-death experience with a unique, vivid plan. She, refusing to spend one more day peddling herself for cheesy TV sitcom parts, d[...]
She is a former child beauty pageant contender. He is a hard-living movie producer. She walks away from a plane crash without so much as a scratch. He comes away from a near-death experience with a unique, vivid plan. She, refusing to spend one more day peddling herself for cheesy TV sitcom parts, d[...]
Though his bestselling novels are in print in some 30 countries around the world, Coupland's accomplishments as a visual artist are less well-known. This book, which features his evocative still lifes and found objects, speaks to this notable parallel career. Coupland writes about Canada in a way no[...]
Douglas Coupland returns to re-inventing Canada following his best-seller that made it clear, Canada is way more than slightly cool.
Douglas Coupland gets Canada. Better, he has set out to re-invent his country with his particular brand of insight, humor, and visual acuity.
Souvenir of Canad[...]
Douglas Coupland is an internationally bestselling novelist known for his pithy and prescient commentary on modern life. His eerily perceptive observations make this a compelling insider's guide to a city that met the world at the 2010 Winter Olympic Games. Conceived by Douglas Coupland and Judith S[...]
"JPod," Douglas Coupland's most acclaimed novel to date, is a lethal joyride into today's new breed of tech worker. Ethan Jarlewski and five co-workers whose surnames begin with "J" are bureaucratically marooned in jPod, a no-escape architectural limbo on the fringes of a massive Vancouver game desi[...]
"#artselfie" opens with an incisive remark by Douglas Coupland: "Selfies are mirrors we can freeze ... Selfies allow us to see how others look at themselves in a mirror making their modeling face when nobody's around ... except these days, everybody's around everywhere all the time." The #artselfie [...]
Kansainvälisen bestseller-kirjailijan Douglas Couplandin mukaansatempaava, nokkela ja syvällinen tarina yksinäisyydestä ja yhteydestä. Sinä vuoden 1997 iltana jona Hale-Bopp kiitää taivaalla Vancouverin yllä Liz Dunnilla ei ole elämässään mitään muuta kuin odottava hammasleikkaus ja s[...]
Couplandin ehkä koskettavimmassa teoksessa käsitellään ilman uskontoa kasvanutta sukupolvea. Kokoelman novellien päähenkilöt yrittävät ymmärtää kuolemaa, rakkautta ja jokapäiväisen elämän tarkoitusta maallisista lähtökohdista. Surullisia, mutta kauniita kertomuksia muun muassa mene[...]
Hei Nostradamus! on Couplandia parhaimmillaan. Pieni yhteisö kokee tragedian, julistaa pyhimyksensä, polttomerkitsee demoninsa ja jatkaa elämäänsä. Tarina kulkee neljän kertojan äänillä teiniavioliitosta kuolemaan ja suruun, uskoon ja rakkauteen teemalla: Onko Jumalaa? Yllättävä ja Coup[...]
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, Cheryl Anway scribbles her last will and testament -- and erie premonition -- on a school bin[...]
Andy, Dag and Claire have been handed a society priced beyond their means.
Twentysomethings, brought up with divorce, Watergate and Three Mile Island, and scarred by the 80s fallout of yuppies, recession, crack and Ronald Reagan, they represent the new generation - Generation X.
Fiercely sus[...]