Generation X

Generation X
Author :
Publisher : Macmillan
Total Pages : 200
Release :
ISBN-10 : 031205436X
ISBN-13 : 9780312054366
Rating : 4/5 (6X Downloads)

Synopsis Generation X by : Douglas Coupland

Three twenty-something young adults, working at low-paying, no-future jobs, tell one another modern tales of love and death.

Life After God

Life After God
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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Total Pages : 215
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781471105586
ISBN-13 : 147110558X
Rating : 4/5 (86 Downloads)

Synopsis Life After God by : Douglas Coupland

YOU ARE THE FIRST GENERATION RAISED WITHOUT RELIGION What happens if we are raised without religion or beliefs? As we grow older, the beauty and disenchantments of the world temper our souls. We all have spiritual impulses, yet where do these impulses flow in a world of commodities and consumerism? LIFE AFTER GOD is a compellingly innovative collection of stories responding to these themes. Douglas Coupland takes us into worlds we know exist but rarely see, finding rare grace amid our pre-millennium turmoil.

Binge

Binge
Author :
Publisher : Random House Canada
Total Pages : 273
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781039000520
ISBN-13 : 1039000525
Rating : 4/5 (20 Downloads)

Synopsis Binge by : Douglas Coupland

NATIONAL BESTSELLER The first new work of fiction since 2013 from one of Canada's most successful, idiosyncratic and world-defining writers, Douglas Coupland. He's called it Binge because it's impossible to read just one. Imagine feeling 100% alive every moment of every minute of the day! Maybe that's how animals live. Or trees, even. I sometimes stare at the plastic bag tree visible from my apartment window and marvel that both it and I are equally alive and that there's no sliding scale of life. You're either alive, or you're not. Or you're dead or you're not. Thirty years after Douglas Coupland broke the fiction mould and defined a generation with Generation X, he is back with Binge, 60 stories laced with his observational profundity about the way we live and his existential worry about how we should be living: the very things that have made him such an influential and bestselling writer. Not to mention that he can also be really funny. Here the narrators vary from story to story as Doug catches what he calls "the voice of the people," inspired by the way we write about ourselves and our experiences in online forums. The characters, of course, are Doug's own: crackpots, cranks and sweetie-pies, dad dancers and perpetrators of carbecues. People in the grip of unconscionable urges; lonely people; dying people; silly people. If you love Doug's fiction, this collection is like rain on the desert.

Marshall McLuhan

Marshall McLuhan
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Publisher : Atlas and Company
Total Pages : 225
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781935633167
ISBN-13 : 1935633163
Rating : 4/5 (67 Downloads)

Synopsis Marshall McLuhan by : Douglas Coupland

Surveys the life and career of the social theorist best known for the quotation, "The medium is the message, " who helped shape the culture of the 1960s and predicted the future of television and the rise of the Internet.

Terry

Terry
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 0
Release :
ISBN-10 : 1553651529
ISBN-13 : 9781553651529
Rating : 4/5 (29 Downloads)

Synopsis Terry by : Douglas Coupland

In 1980, Terry Fox set out to run across Canada to raise money for cancer research -- despite having lost one leg to the disease. His goal was to raise $1 from every Canadian to help find a cure, and some combination of passion, idealism, and sheer guts led to the impossible notion that he would do this on one good leg and a prosthesis. Beginning in Newfoundland on April 12, 1980, he ran 26 miles each day for 143 consecutive days. But on September 1, the return of his cancer forced him to stop in Thunder Bay, Ontario. He died ten months later, but by then his dream had been realized: over $24 million had been collected in his name. Created to help celebrate the 25th anniversary of his journey, this biography combines over 80 new photographs from a previously unknown family collection with a very personal episodic narrative. The result brings a magic moment in Canadian history, and the young man who inspired it, freshly alive. All royalties from the book will be donated to the Terry Fox Foundation to support cancer research.

Microserfs

Microserfs
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Publisher : Harper Collins
Total Pages : 404
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780062105967
ISBN-13 : 0062105965
Rating : 4/5 (67 Downloads)

Synopsis Microserfs by : Douglas Coupland

From the era-defining author of Generation X comes a novel of overworked coders who escape the serfdom of Bill Gates to forge their own path. They are Microserfs—six code-crunching computer whizzes who spend upward of sixteen hours a day “coding” and eating “flat” foods (food which, like Kraft singles, can be passed underneath closed doors) as they fearfully scan company e-mail to learn whether the great Bill is going to “flame” one of them. But now there’s a chance to become innovators instead of cogs in the gargantuan Microsoft machine. The intrepid Microserfs are striking out on their own—living together in a shared digital flophouse as they desperately try to cultivate well-rounded lives and find love amid the dislocated, subhuman whir and buzz of their computer-driven world.

Player One

Player One
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Publisher : House of Anansi
Total Pages : 258
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780887849688
ISBN-13 : 0887849687
Rating : 4/5 (88 Downloads)

Synopsis Player One by : Douglas Coupland

Story of five people caught inside an airport cocktail lounge during a global disaster.

Shampoo Planet

Shampoo Planet
Author :
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Total Pages : 324
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780671755065
ISBN-13 : 0671755064
Rating : 4/5 (65 Downloads)

Synopsis Shampoo Planet by : Douglas Coupland

Despite their differing values, Tyler Johnson, an ambitious hotel management student, tries to console his mother, a former hippie, when Dan, his land-developer stepfather, decides to get a divorce.

Worst. Person. Ever.

Worst. Person. Ever.
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Publisher : Penguin
Total Pages : 252
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780698151079
ISBN-13 : 0698151070
Rating : 4/5 (79 Downloads)

Synopsis Worst. Person. Ever. by : Douglas Coupland

Raymond Gunt likes to think of himself as a pretty decent guy—he believes in karma, and helping his fellow man, and all that other good stuff. Sure, he can be foulmouthed, occasionally misogynistic, and can just generally rub people the wrong way—through no fault of his own! So with all the positive energy he’s creating, it’s a little perplexing to consider the recent downward spiral his life has taken…Could the universe be trying to tell him something? A B-unit cameraman with no immediate employment prospects, Gunt decides to accept his ex-wife Fiona’s offer to shoot a Survivor-style reality show on an obscure island in the Pacific. With his upwardly failing sidekick, Neal, in tow, Gunt somehow suffers multiple comas and unjust imprisonment, is forced to reenact the “Angry Dance” from the movie Billy Elliot, and finds himself at the center of a nuclear war—among other tribulations and humiliations. A razor-sharp portrait of a morally bankrupt, gleefully wicked modern man, Worst. Person. Ever. is a side-splittingly funny and gloriously filthy new novel from acclaimed author Douglas Coupland. A deeply unworthy book about a dreadful human being with absolutely no redeeming social value, it’s guaranteed to brighten up your day.

Kitten Clone

Kitten Clone
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Publisher : Writers in Residence
Total Pages : 0
Release :
ISBN-10 : 0956569285
ISBN-13 : 9780956569288
Rating : 4/5 (85 Downloads)

Synopsis Kitten Clone by : Douglas Coupland

Coupland takes readers on a web surfing-inspired ride through Alcatel-Lucent: one of the largest global telecommunications companies in the world.