Player One by Douglas Coupland

Player One by Douglas Coupland

A real-time five-hour story set in an airport cocktail lounge during a global disaster. Slowly, each reveals the truth about themselves while the world as they know it comes to an end. In the tradition of Kurt Vonnegut and J.G.

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 *

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.

SKU	Unavailable
ISBN 13	9780099538189
ISBN 10	0099538180
Title	Player One
Author	Douglas Coupland
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Cornerstone
Year published	2011-09-01
Number of pages	256
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.