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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 *

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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