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All Families Are Psychoticby Douglas CouplandISBN 0007117531 (0-00-711753-1)
Softcover, Zondervan
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› Find signed collectible books: 'All Families Are Psychotic'Book summary: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 form. In a cheap motel an hour from Cape Canaveral, Janet Drummond takes her medication, and does a rapid tally of the whereabouts of her children. Wade has spent the night in jail; suicidal Bryan is due to arrive at any moment with his vowel-free girlfriend, Shw; and then there is Sarah, 'a bolt of lightning frozen in midflash' - here in Orlando to be the star of Friday's shuttle mission. With Janet's ex-husband and his trophy wife also in town, Janet spends a moment contemplating her family, and where it all went wrong. Or did it? [via]
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Eleanor Rigbyby Douglas CouplandISBN 0007162529 (0-00-716252-9)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Eleanor Rigby'Book summary:Following the hugely acclaimed bestseller Hey Nostradamus! comes a major new novel from Douglas Coupland: the wonderfully warm, funny, life-affirming story of Liz Dunn, a woman who has spent her whole life alone and lonely - until now...This is a brilliant work of commercial literary fiction from an author who just gets better and better. 'My name is Liz Dunn. The Liz Dunns of this world take classes in croissant baking, and would rather chew on soccer balls than deny their children muesli. They own one sex toy, plus one cowboy fantasy that accompanies its use...Look at me: I am a traitor to my name: I'm not cheerful; I'm drab. I'm crabby and friendless. And lonely.' Liz Dunn is 42 years old, and lonely. Her house is like 'a spinster's cell block', and she may or may not snore - there's never been anybody to tell her. Then one day in 1997, with the comet Hale Bopp burning bright in the blue-black sky, Liz receives an urgent phone call asking her to visit a young man in hospital. All at once, the loneliness that has come to define her is ripped away by this funny, smart, handsome young stranger, Jeremy. Her son. Eleanor Rigby is a tale of loneliness and hope that introduces Douglas Coupland's finest character yet. Illuminated by a wonderfully gentle, searching wisdom, it sees Coupland ascend to a new level of peace and grace in his ever-more-extraordinary career. [via]
Girlfriend in a Comaby Douglas CouplandISBN 0006385427 (0-00-638542-7)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Girlfriend in a Coma'Book summary:In this latest novel from the poet laureate of Gen X--who is himself now a dangerously mature 36--boy does indeed meet girl. The year is 1979, and the lovers get right down to business in a very Couplandian bit of plein air intercourse: "Karen and I deflowered each other atop Grouse Mountain, among the cedars beside a ski slope, atop crystal snow shards beneath penlight stars. It was a December night so cold and clear that the air felt like the air of the Moon--lung-burning; mentholated and pure; hint of ozone, zinc, ski wax, and Karen's strawberry shampoo." Are we in for an archetypal '80s romance, played out against a pop-cultural backdrop? Nope. Only hours after losing her virginity, Karen loses consciousness as well--for almost two decades. The narrator and his circle soldier on, making the slow progression from debauched Vancouver youths to semiresponsible adults. Several end up working on a television series that bears a suspicious resemblance to The X-Files (surely a self-referential wink on the author's part). And then ... Karen wakes up. Her astonishment--which suggests a 20th-century, substance-abusing Rip Van Winkle--dominates the second half of the novel, and gives Coupland free reign to muse about time, identity, and the meaning (if any) of the impending millennium. Alas, he also slaps a concluding apocalypse onto the novel. As sleeping sickness overwhelms the populace, the world ends with neither a bang nor a whimper, but a universal yawn--which doesn't, fortunately, outweigh the sweetness, oddity, and ironic smarts of everything that has preceded it. [via]
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- Girlfriend in a Coma: ISBN 0006485979 (0-00-648597-9)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited - Girlfriend in a Coma: ISBN 0006551262 (0-00-655126-2)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers Limited - Girlfriend in a Coma: ISBN 0006551270 (0-00-655127-0)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers Limited - Girlfriend in a Coma: ISBN 0002257548 (0-00-225754-8)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited - Girlfriend in a Coma: ISBN 0002243962 (0-00-224396-2)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited - Girlfriend in a Coma: ISBN 0006385427 (0-00-638542-7)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
- Girlfriend in a Coma: ISBN 0006485979 (0-00-648597-9)
Hey Nostradamus!by Douglas CouplandISBN 0007162510 (0-00-716251-0)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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Microserfsby Douglas CouplandISBN 0006481280 (0-00-648128-0)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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- Microserfs: ISBN 0006485898 (0-00-648589-8)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited - Microserfs: ISBN 0002253119 (0-00-225311-9)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited - Microserfs: ISBN 0006548598 (0-00-654859-8)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers Limited - Microserfs: ISBN 0002244047 (0-00-224404-7)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited - Microserfs: ISBN 0006481280 (0-00-648128-0)
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- Microserfs: ISBN 0006485898 (0-00-648589-8)
Miss Wyomingby Douglas CouplandISBN 0006552064 (0-00-655206-4)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers Limited
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Polaroids from the Deadby Douglas CouplandISBN 0006392512 (0-00-639251-2)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Polaroids from the Dead'Book summary: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 youthful reckless and carefree lifestyle at the expense of their children, to the "gristled leather bachelors" and "straw-permed sex androids from Planet 1971," to mourning his own sense of youthfulness as he revisits old haunts in his native Vancouver. [via]
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- Polaroids from the Dead: ISBN 0006480691 (0-00-648069-1)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited - Polaroids from the Dead: ISBN 0006548601 (0-00-654860-1)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers Limited - Polaroids from the Dead: ISBN 0002253127 (0-00-225312-7)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Publishers Limited - Polaroids from the Dead: ISBN 0002554356 (0-00-255435-6)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited - Polaroids from the Dead: ISBN 0006392512 (0-00-639251-2)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
- Polaroids from the Dead: ISBN 0006480691 (0-00-648069-1)
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