Douglas Coupland

Vuelve Douglas Coupland con una novela para leer en «modo atracón» En los años 90, la publicación de "Generación X" convirtió a Douglas Coupland en el gran cronista de los nativos digitales. "Micros

From the acclaimed author of Hey Nostradamus! comes a wonderful comic novel with `more one-liners than a decade of Woody Allen films' (Guardian), about the scramble for love and success in a brave new world... Bill is wise.Bill is kind.Bill is benevolent.Bill, Be My Friend... Please! At computer giant Microsoft, Dan, Susan, Abe, Todd and Bug are struggling to get a life. The job may be super cool, the pay may be astronomical, but they're heading nowhere, and however hard they work, however many shares they earn, they're never going to be as rich as Bill. And besides, with all the hours they're putting in, their best relationships are on e-mail. Something's got to give...

Roger Thorpe es un cuarentón divorciado que trabaja en el almacen de material de oficina Staples: hileras interminables de bolígrafos, post-its, archivadores, libretas de todo tipo... Allí trabaja tambien Bethany, una veinteñaera en su fase gotica que odia a casi todo el mundo y esta obsesionada con la muerte. Un dia Bethany descubre la novela que Roger esta empezando a escribir: Glove Pond. En ella, un matrimonio alcoholizado con un trauma imborrable -Steve, escritor en horas bajas y Gloria, una actriz a quien ya nadie contrata- espera la visita de una pareja en un momento aparentemente perfecto: Kyle Falconcrest y Brittany, escritor de exito y cirujana renombrada.A partir de ese momento Roger y Bethany inician una relacion epistolar que provocara un giro en sus vidas. Bethany se alimentara de la novela que Roger escribe para descubrir su verdadera razon de ser y Roger la seguira escribiendo porque, desesperado, roto tras el divorcio con su ex mujer Joan, "escribir es lo unico que me mantiene cuerdo".Douglas Coupland capta la incomunicacion en un mundo de tecnologia punta a traves de un juego de mascaras y espejos con sorpresa final. El ladron de chicles es una novela dentro de otra novela pero incluye ademas numerosos links: la ex mujer de Roger, que tiene una nueva vida si

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.

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.

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.

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...

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.

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...

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.

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 razor-sharp portrait of a morally bankrupt and gleefully wicked modern man, Worst. Person. Ever. Is Douglas Coupland's gloriously filthy, side-splittingly funny and unforgettable novel. Meet Raymon

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.

Liz Dunn's quiet existence is upended by young Jeremy--the son she abandoned--who is now a charming lost soul with a terminal illness who triggers a chain of events that takes Liz to the other side o

Astute, funny, literate, politically and culturally aware; in this analysis of The Simpsons, Chris Turner, a provocative new writer, dissects the world's favourite TV show - its genesis, past, characters and influence. Bart, Homer and Marge have entered the lexicon of iconic, global characters. Bart has the highest recognition factor amongst kids in the UK & US, way above that of Harry Potter. The British voted it their favourite TV programme ever. The Archbishop of Canterbury called it 'one of the most subtle pieces of propaganda around in the cause of sense, humility and virtue.' Yet The Simpsons is thoroughly subversive and irreverent. Bringing the savvy insight to The Simpsons that has been brought to publishing on global politics, the internet and the fast-food industry, Chris Turner looks at how The Simpsons is created and the unique two-way relationship of inspiration and influence it has with the real world. From Marge and moral values to Lisa and the environment, from Homer and consumerism to Citizen Burns and corporate villainy - this is the first book to be written that is as intelligent, subversive, wide-ranging and funny as the show itself.

Meet Liz Dunn -- a good woman who has become very good at being lonely. Then, after 25 years apart, her amazing 25-year-old son returns into her life. And, at 40, suddenly, she is no longer alone, and must decide what matters more: peace, certainty or love? Once upon a time Liz Dunn was the loneliest girl in the world. One starry night, far from home, she told a stranger she was tired of being lonely. So, he tried to put an end to all that. Twenty-five years later, into her life walks, for the very first time, her son Jeremy. And everything changes. Liz has in the interim learned to live with loneliness, and become rather expert at it, as well as being sparky, competent and sarcastic when necessary. Now, with Jeremy in her life, she has to abandon her certainties as her world expands...This is a novel irradiated by hope and illuminated by trust, that also fizzes with whirls in Vienna, romance in Rome, mayhem in Frankfurt and visions in Vancouver. It is blessed with the commanding presence of an unforgettable heroine in Liz Dunn, with whom Douglas Coupland ascends to a new level of peace and grace in his ever-more-amazing career as an artist of rare capabilities.