Player One by Douglas Coupland - ISBN: 9780099538189
Paperback
Trapped in a lounge, the world ends, truths emerge.

Player One

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  • Paperback

    256 pages

  • Release Date

    1 November 2011

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Summary

From the bestselling author of Jpod, Generation X, and Generation A comes a dystopian Breakfast Club for the twenty-first century.

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 conta…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780099538189
ISBN-10:0099538180
Author:Douglas Coupland
Publisher:Cornerstone
Imprint:Windmill Books
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:256
Release Date:1 November 2011
Weight:188g
Dimensions:200mm x 130mm x 19mm
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Critics Review

A work of genius

A work of genius * Independent on Sunday *
A tense, utterly compelling story * The Times *
Enjoyable …The way Coupland moulds his fiction from the throwaway debris of North American popular culture is quite brilliant … Coupland has always been a highly compassionate writer, concerned mainly with the ways in which affluent people’s lives are cheapened by popular culture – Scarlett Thomas * Guardian *
The pulse quickens as his principal characters hunker down for some besieged truth-telling…Dynamic engagement is the real meat of this slim but provocative novel * Independent *
As always with Coupland, the ideas come thick and fast, they’re quirky, often funny and frequently profound * Daily Mail *
As an observer with a knack of coining memorable phrases he is as sharp as ever … Coupland’s gift from comedy is evident in the combination of bathos and farce … Shows Coupland as a first-rate thinker on what technology in its present form does, and might do, to consciousness, identity and individuality * Times Literary Supplement *

About The Author

Douglas Coupland

DOUGLAS COUPLAND is the author of the international bestseller JPOD and twelve other novels including the era-defining GENERATION X and, most recently, GENERATION A. His books have been translated into thirty-five languages. He is also a visual artist and sculptor, furniture designer and screenwriter. He lives and works in Vancouver.

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