Generation A

[A] visionary author … rock’n’roll yet deadly serious, a caustic social commentator and delineator of the near future … He’s caught midway between technophilia and technophobia … there’s no better place to be for a contemporary prophet * The Sunday Times *
A shrewd observer of modernity … His latest novel is a quirky glance into the near future … an earnest plea for authentic communication in an evermore isolated world … Coupland touches on an ambitious array of topics … enlivened by observations about the banalities of popular culture * The Observer *
A paean to good old-fashioned storytelling, of which the novel itself is an inventive and unexpectedly moving example * Daily Mail *
[An] intoxicating cocktail of literary influences … Coupland [is] a joy to read … A globally ambitious novel, and all the better for it * The Guardian *
Fans of Coupland will rejoice … Coupland’s audacious flights of fancy, his laugh-out-loud dialogue and his magnificent ability to bring it all back to storytelling and orange-flavour tang, they’re all here … Such a treat * Independent on Sunday *
Generation A hints at an idealism, a generation that could be at the beginning of something, although it may be too passive and self-involved to realise it … Beneath the typically brilliant, sharp wisecracks and riffs about fashion products, relationships and lifestyle, there is tangible outrage at the violation of Nature … Moving and meaningful * The Times *
He’s still funny [and] writes great social commentary * *
He is a brilliant social commentator and a wit of our times * Times Literary Supplement *
Coupland is a smart, witty writer…The short stories in the second half, like those in Generation X, are a delight. * London Lite *
A thoughtful book, abuzz with information-age gadgets and connectivity, and housing a sturdy scientific conspiracy. It also manages to be stylistically light but intellectually provocative – Ben Jeffery * Times Literary Supplement *

DOUGLAS COUPLAND was born on a NATO base in Germany in 1961. He is the author of the international bestseller JPOD and ten other novels including THE GUM THIEF, HEY NOSTRADAMUS!, ALL FAMILIES ARE PSYCHOTIC AND GENERATION X. His books have been translated into thirty-five languages and published in most countries around the world. He is also a visual artist and sculptor, furniture designer and screenwriter. He lives and works in Vancouver.

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