{"product_id":"books-jpod-by-douglas-coupland","title":"JPod","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eJPod\u003c\/i\u003e, Douglas Coupland's most acclaimed novel to date, is a lethal joyride into today's new breed of tech worker. Ethan Jarlewski and five co-workers whose surnames begin with J are bureaucratically marooned in jPod, a no-escape architectural limbo on the fringes of a massive Vancouver game design company. The jPodders wage daily battle against the demands of a boneheaded marketing staff, who daily torture employees with idiotic changes to already idiotic games. Meanwhile, Ethan's personal life is shaped (or twisted) by phenomena as disparate as Hollywood, marijuana grow-ops, people-smuggling, ballroom dancing, and the rise of China. \u003ci\u003eJPod\u003c\/i\u003e's universe is amoral, shameless, and dizzyingly fast-paced like our own. \u003cbr\u003eDouglas Coupland is a novelist who also work in visual arts and theater. His novels include Generation X, Microserfs, All Families Are Psychotic, Hey Nostradamus , and Eleanor Rigby. He lives and works in Vancouver, Canada. \u003cbr\u003ePraise for JPod: JPod is a sleek and necessary device: the finely tuned output of an author whose obsolescence is thankfully years away.-New York Times Book ReviewIt's to  Coupland's] credit that in JPod he's still nimble enough to take the post-modern man-too young for Boomer nostalgia and too old for youthful idealism-and drown his sorrows in a willful, joyful satire that revels in the same cultural conventions that it sends up.-Rocky Mountain News \u003cbr\u003eIt's time to admire  Coupland's] virtuoso tone and how he has refined it over 11 novels. The master ironist just might redefine E. M. Forster's famous dictate 'Only connect' for the Google age.-USA Today \u003cbr\u003eZeitgeist surfer Douglas Coupland downloads his brain into JPod.-Vanity Fair \u003cbr\u003eAlso available: JPod - HC ISBN-10 1-59691-104-2 ISBN 13 978-1-59691-104-8 $24.95 All Families Are Psychotic - PB, ISBN-10 1-58234-215-6 ISBN-13 1-58234-215-3 $13.95 Hey Nostradamus  - PB, ISBN-10 1-58234-415-9 ISBN-13 1-58234-415-7 $13.95 Eleanor Rigby - HC, ISBN-10 1-58234-5\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"World of Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53481010037009,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780679314240.jpg?v=1777554238","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/books-jpod-by-douglas-coupland","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}