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Coupland Douglas
Player One: What Is to Become of Us (CBC Massey Lecture)
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International bestselling author Douglas Coupland delivers a real-time, five-hour story set in an airport cocktail lounge during a global disaster. Five disparate people are trapped inside: Karen, a single mother waiting for her online date; Rick, the down-on-his-luck airport lounge bartender; Luke, a pastor on the run; Rachel, a cool Hitchcock blonde incapable of true human contact; and finally a mysterious voice known as Player One. Slowly, each reveals the truth about themselves while the world as they know it comes to an end.
In the tradition of Kurt Vonnegut and J. G. Ballard, Coupland explores the modern crises of time, human identity, society, religion, and the afterlife. The book asks as many questions as it answers, and readers will leave the story with no doubt that we are in a new phase of existence as a species — and that there is no turning back.
Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture
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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 their twenties, have quit "pointless jobs done grudgingly to little applause" in their respective hometowns and cut themselves adrift on the California desert. In search of the drastic changes that will lend meaning to their lives, they've mired themselves in the detritus of American cultural memory. Refugees from history, the three develop an ascetic regime of story-telling, boozing, and working McJobs--"low-pay, low-prestige, low-benefit, no-future jobs in the service industry." They create modern fables of love and death among the cosmetic surgery parlors and cocktail bars of Palm Springs, disturbingly funny tales of nuclear waste, historical overdosing, and mall culture.
A dark snapshot of the trio's highly fortressed inner world quickly emerges--landscapes peopled with dead TV shows, "Elvis moments," and semi-disposable Swedish furniture. And from these landscapes, deeper portraits emerge, those of fanatically independent individuals, pathologically ambivalent about the future and brimming with unsatisfied longings for permanence, for love, and for their own home. Andy, Dag, and Claire are underemployed, overeducated, intensely private, and unpredictable. Like the group they mirror, they have nowhere to assuage their fears, and no culture to replace their anomie.
Life After God
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We are the first generation raised without God. We are creatures with strong religious impulses, yet they have nowhere to flow in this world of malls and TV, Kraft dinners and jets. How do we cope with loneliness? Anxiety? The collapse of relationships? How do we reach the quiet, safe layer of our lives? In this compellingly innovative collection of stories, bestselling author Douglas Coupland responds to these themes. Cutting through the hype of modern living to find a rare grace amid our lives, he uncovers a new kind of truth for a culture stuck on fast-forward. A culture seemingly beyond God.
Generation A: A Novel
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Generation A is set in the near future in a world where bees are extinct, until five unconnected people from 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. Generation A mirrors Coupland's debut novel, 1991's Generation X. It explores new ways of storytelling in a digital world. Like much of Coupland'swriting, it occupies the perplexing hinterland between optimism about the future and everyday apocalyptic paranoia. Imaginative, inventive, and fantastically entertaining, Generation A is his most ambitious work to date.
Marshall McLuhan: You Know Nothing of My Work!
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A crackling look at the philosopher whose founding ideas were at once obscure and eerily prophetic. Marshall McLuhan, the celebrated social theorist who defined the culture of the 1960s, is remembered now primarily for the aphoristic slogan he coined to explain the emerging new world of global communication: “The medium is the message.” Half a century later, McLuhan’s predictions about the end of print culture and the rise of “electronic inter-dependence” have become a reality—in a sense, the reality—of our time. Douglas Coupland, whose iconic novel Generation X was a “McLuhanesque” account of our culture in fictional form, has written a compact biography of the cultural critic that interprets the life and work of his subject from inside. A fellow Canadian, a master of creative sociology, a writer who supplied a defining term, Coupland is the ideal chronicler of the uncanny prophet whose vision of the global village—now known as the Internet—has come to pass in the 21st century.
Player One
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This is a real-time five-hour story set in an airport cocktail lounge during a global disaster. Five disparate people are trapped inside: Karen, a single mother waiting for her online date; Rick, the down-on-his-luck airport lounge bartender; Luke, a pastor on the run; Rachel, a cool Hitchcock blonde incapable of true human contact; and finally a mysterious voice known as Player One. Slowly, each reveals the truth about themselves while the world as they know it comes to an end. In the tradition of Kurt Vonnegut and J.G. Ballard, Coupland explores the modern crises of time, human identity, society, religion and the afterlife. The book asks as many questions as it answers and readers will leave the story with no doubt that we are in a new phase of existence as a species o and that there is no turning back.
Coupland Douglas News
Douglas Coupland et la Génération A - Voir.ca
Voir.ca, Canada - May 13, 2009
Douglas Coupland et la Génération ADouglas Coupland récidive: 18 ans après la publication de Generation X, l'inimitable romancier de Vancouver publiera en août un roman intitulé Generation A. In the near future bees are extinct—until one autumn when five unconnected individuals,
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Also Published: 5 Upcoming Novels - The List
The List, UK - May 17, 5740
Also Published: 5 Upcoming NovelsPenguin, 3 Sep. Douglas Coupland Generation A In the near future bees are extinct, until one autumn when five unconnected individuals, in different parts of the world, are stung. Thus begins Coupland's latest dissection of digital-age paranoia.
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Bookmarks: Michiko Kakutani 4 evah, Frey vs. Oprah, tiny type - National Post
National Post, Canada - May 07, 2009
Bookmarks: Michiko Kakutani 4 evah, Frey vs. Oprah, tiny typeSnarky lit-blogger Dangerfield disses the entire ouevre of Douglas Coupland. From the post: Here is my synopsis of every Doug Coupland book, ever. Character A: You remember that Thing*? I remember that Thing. Character A: Our shared rememberance of
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Unhappy birthday? - guardian.co.uk
guardian.co.uk, UK - May 22, 2009
guardian.co.ukUnhappy birthday?Following Douglas Coupland's novel Girlfriend in a Coma, Jo Brand's latest book is titled The More You Ignore Me the Closer I Get. Then there's the recent, celebrated Swedish vampire movie Let the Right One In, not forgetting Keri Koch's new feature
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Recap: Rooftop Films Opening Night - Decider New York
Decider New York, NY - May 18, 2009
Decider New YorkRecap: Rooftop Films Opening NightIt seemed like the product of way too many hours with Douglas Coupland, but in a good way. Free beer flowed afterward at Fontana's, four blocks away from the rooftop and the scene of an extremely crowded open bar. But if all the parts of Rooftop Films'
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