Une mère célibataire, un barman fauché, un pasteur en cavale et une blonde autiste se retrouvent coincés dans un bar d'aéroport, alors qu'un terrible cataclysme détruit sous leurs yeux le monde tel q
A quarante ans, Raymond Gunt mène une existence misérable entre une ex-femme qui le méprise, un appartement londonien crasseux et une carrière de caméraman ratée.
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A traves de una prosa frenetica, desternillante y teñida de ironía, Coupland nos introduce en el mundo de un patetico grupo de personajes que se definen a sí mismos como ?deprimentes compendios de cultura pop y emociones reprimidas cuyas vidas estan controladas por la forma mas banal de capitalismo?, como ?gente que vive perpetuamente preocupada por la posibilidad de quedarse obsoleta?. 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 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.Douglas Coupland nacio en una base de la OTAN en Alemania en 1961 y se formo como escultor, artista visual y diseñador grafico en Vancouver y Milan, entre otras ciudades. Ademas de su trabajo en las artes graficas y plasticas, Coupland es mundialmente conocido por su particular prosa, a
Ethan Jarlewski and five co-workers whose surnames end in ''J'' are bureaucratically marooned in JPod. JPod is a no-escape architectural limbo on the fringes of a massive Vancouver game design company. The six workers daily confront the forces that define our era: global piracy, boneheaded marketing staff, people smuggling, the rise of China, marijuana grow-ops, Jeff Probst, and the ashes of the 1990s financial tech dream. JPod''s universe is amoral and shameless. The characters are products of their era even as they''re creating it. Everybody in Ethan''s life inhabits a moral grey zone. Nobody is exempt, not even his seemingly straitlaced parents or Coupland himself. Full of word games, visual jokes and sideways jabs, this book throws a sharp, pointed lawn dart into the heart of contemporary life.
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.
