Douglas Coupland

Hej Nostradamus! er en roman af Douglas Coupland hvis omdrejningspunkt er et fiktivt skoleskyderi i en forstad til Vancouver, Canada i 1988 og det der følger efter af sorg og ensomhed. Bogen, der blev udgivet i 2003, er Couplands mest kritikerroste udgivelse og indeholder fire forskellige førstepersonsfortællinger fra …

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 …

JPod is a novel by Douglas Coupland published by Random House of Canada in 2006. Set in 2005, the book explores the strange and unconventional everyday life of the main character, Ethan Jarlewski, and his team of video game programmers whose last names all begin with the letter 'J'. JPod was adopted as a CBC …

Kæreste i Koma er en roman af den canadiske forfatter Douglas Coupland. Bogen, der blev udgivet i 1998, fortæller historien om en gruppe venner, der vokser op i Vancouver, British Columbia i Canada i slutningen af 1970'erne. En aften ved en fest falder en af hovedpersonerne, Karen, i koma. Det viser sig at hun måske …

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 …

A crackling look at the philosopher whose founding ideas were at once obscure and eerily prophetic.Marshall McLuhan, the celebrated social theorist who defined the culture of the 1960s, is remembered now primarily for the aphoristic slogan he coined to explain the emerging new world of global communication: “The …

Microserfs, published by HarperCollins in 1995, is an epistolary novel by Douglas Coupland. It first appeared in short story form as the cover article for the January 1994 issue of Wired magazine and was subsequently expanded to full novel length. Set in the early 1990s, it captures the state of the technology …

Miss Wyoming er en roman af Douglas Coupland. Det blev første gang udgivet af Random House of Canada i januar 2000. Romanen følger to hovedpersoner, Susan Colgate, og John Johnson, en tidligere handling filmproducent. Hvor begge karakterer oplevede succes tidligt i deres liv, er de ude i personlige og professionelle …

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 …