Douglas Coupland

Hey Nostradamus! is a novel by Douglas Coupland centred on a fictional 1988 school shooting in suburban Vancouver, British Columbia and its aftermath. This is Coupland's most critically acclaimed novel. It was first published by Random House of Canada in 2003. The novel comprises four first-person narratives, each …

In the grand tradition of Edward Gorey's Gashlycrumb Tinies, Tim Burton's Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Hillaire Belloc's Cautionary Tales for Children, comes Douglas Coupland and Graham Roumieu's Highly Inappropriate Tales for Young People.Ever wonder what would happen if Douglas Coupland's unhinged imagination …

El Aleph. Barcelona. 2010. 18 cm. 525 p. Encuadernación en tapa blanda de editorial ilustrada. Colección 'Quinteto', 355. Traducción de Raquel Herrera Ferrer. Título original: jPOD. Quinteto (Barcelona). 355 . ISBN: 978-84-9711-140-9

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 …

Il serait difficile d’exagérer l’importance de Marshall McLuhan et de ses théories sur les communications, mais ses écrits sont plus souvent cités que lus. Il n’en demeure pas moins que ses prédictions se sont réalisées : dès le début des années 60, McLuhan a écrit que la culture de l’imprimé, visuelle et …

L'heure du cyber-roman populaire est enfin arrivée. Délire textuel en langage informatique et constructions narratives inspirées du codage binaire en sont, chez Coupland, les caractères les plus frappants. Et l'ouvrage détonne. Bombardé de références culturelles propres à l'univers du multimédia - Star Trek, Tetris, …

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 Wyoming, and John Johnson, a former action film producer. Both have experienced early success but now find themselves in terminal career …

In his 2010 CBC Massey Lectures acclaimed novelist and visual artist Douglas Coupland explores the modern crises of time, human identity, society, religion and macroeconomics and the afterlife in the form of a novel, a 5-hour story set in an airport cocktail lounge during a global disaster. Five disparate people are …

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 that he is not young anymore. Essays include observations on parents his age at Grateful Dead concerts who seem intent on preserving a …