Douglas Coupland

Raymond Gunt likes to think of himself as a pretty decent guyhe 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 waythrough no fault of his own! So with all the positive energy hes creating, its a little perplexing to consider the recent downward spiral his life has takenCould the universe be trying to tell him something?A B-unit cameraman with no immediate employment prospects, Gunt decides to accept his ex-wife Fionas 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 waramong 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, its guaranteed to brighten up your day.

Corre la década de los sesenta en Damasco cuando el joven Farid conoce a la hermosa e inteligente Rana. La atracción mutua es irresistible, pero, para su desgracia, pertenecen a familias cristianas que se odian a muerte: los Mushtak, catolicos, y los Shahin, de tradicion greco-ortodoxa. Desde el primer momento, la relacion entre los jovenes se convierte en un desafio inaceptable a la ley de los clanes rivales, un amor condenado a la clandestinidad y el exilio. La suerte de los amantes a lo largo de varias decadas concita una nutrida galeria de personajes dificiles de olvidar. Y como formidable marco de esta historia esta Damasco, ciudad misteriosa y fascinante, que palpita en estas paginas a traves de una vision intima pero certera de una cultura marcada por las convulsiones politicas y religiosas, y de un mundo en el que el valor del individuo queda relegado ante el poder omnipresente de la familia. Tesela a tesela, Schami ha compuesto un impresionante mosaico de Oriente Proximo, desde el fin del imperio Otomano hasta nuestros dias, un panorama de enfrentamientos y revueltas, tramas secretas y dictaduras que abarca desde Siria al Libano, pasando por la diaspora en Arabia, Europa y America.

Meet Roger, a divorced, middle-aged ''aisles associate'' at a Staples outlet, condemned to restocking reams of paper for the rest of his life, and his co-worker, Bethany, who''s at the end of her Goth phase and realising she''s facing fifty more years of shelving Post-it notes and replenshing the Crayola boutique in Aisle Six. One day, Bethany discovers Roger''s notebook in the staff room. When she opens it up, she discovers that this old guy who she''s never considered to be quite human is writing mock diary entries pretending to be her - and weirdly, he''s getting it right. She learns he has a tragedy in his past, and suddenly he no longer seems like a paper-stocking robot in a red shirt and a name tag. These two retail workers then strike up an unlikely yet touching secret correspondence. As their lives unfold, so too do the characters of Roger''s work-in-progress, the oddly titled Glove Pond, a Cheever-era novella gone horribly, horribly wrong.On every page of this wise, witty and unforgettable novel, Coupland reminds us that love, death and eternal friendship can all occur where and when we least expect them and that, even after tragedy has hit, one can still find solace in the comedy and strange comforts of modern life.

Ethan Jarlewski y sus cinco compañeros de trabajo conforman el jPOD, un grupo de programadores de videojuegos sometido a las directrices absurdas de una multinacional. Incapaces de rebelarse y limitados por el lenguaje logico y matematico de los ordenadores, los trabajadores sacrifican sus vidas privadas por el bien de la corporacion. El contacto con los personajes del mundo exterior, entre los cuales se encuentra el propio Coupland y la madre del protagonista (una despiadada viuda negra, narcotraficante), nos presenta un panorama humano amoral, condenado a la ignorancia y con una dudosa posibilidad de redencion.

In the near future bees are extinct - until five unconnected individuals, in different parts of the world, are stung. Immediately snatched up by ominous figures in hazmat suits, interrogated separately in neutral Idea-like chambers, and then released as 15-minute-celebrities into a world driven ... Show more In the near future bees are extinct - until five unconnected individuals, in different parts of the world, are stung. Immediately snatched up by ominous figures in hazmat suits, interrogated separately in neutral Idea-like chambers, and then released as 15-minute-celebrities into a world driven almost entirely by the internet, these five unforgettable people endure a barrage of unusual and highly 21st-century circumstances. A charismatic scientist with dubious motives eventually brings the quintet together, and their shared experience unites them in a way they could never have imagined. "Generation A" mirrors the structure of 1991's 'Generation X' as it champions the act of reading and storytelling as one of the few defenses we still have against the constant bombardment of the senses in a digital world. Like much of Coupland's writing, it occupies the perplexing hinterland between optimism about the future and everyday, apocalyptic paranoia, and is his most ambitious and entertaining novel to date.

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...

A stunning collection from Douglas Coupland that explores the different ways 20th-century notions of the future are being shredded.Bit Rot is a gem of the digital age. Reading Bit Rot feels a lot like bingeing on Netflix ... you can''t stop with just one."Bit rot" is a term used in digital archiving to describe the way digital files can spontaneously and quickly decompose. As Coupland writes, "Bit rot also describes the way my brain has been feeling since 2000, as I shed older and weaker neurons and connections and enhance new and unexpected ones".Bit Rot the book explores the ways humanity tries to make sense of our shifting consciousness. Coupland, just like the Internet, mixes forms to achieve his ends. Short fiction is interspersed with essays on all aspects of modern life. The result is addictively satisfying for Coupland''s legion of fans hungry for his observations about our world. For almost three decades, his unique pattern recognition has powered his fiction, and his phrase-making. Every page of Bit Rot is full of wit, surprise and delight.

Douglas Coupland's most ambitious and entertaining novel to date. GENERATION A is set in the near future in a world where bees are extinct, until one autumn five unconnected people around the world - in the US, 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. Like much of Coupland's writing, it occupies the perplexing hinterland between optimism about the future and everyday, apocalyptic paranoia.

A real-time five-hour story set in an airport cocktail lounge during a global disaster. Slowly, each reveals the truth about themselves while the world as they know it comes to an end. In the tradi

In the near future bees are extinct - until five unconnected individuals, in different parts of the world, are stung.

They are Microserfssix 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 ownliving 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.

Seven pants-peeingly funny stories featuring seven evil characters you can´t help but love:Douglas Coupland´s stories are illustrated with dark charm by Graham Roumieu in a collaboration that brings togethertwo of Canada´s wittiest creators for the first time Put yourtherapist on speed dial and read them with pleasure...