Douglas Coupland
Douglas Coupland is known worldwide as a writer with the ability to capture our techno-pop-culture existence to the page, as well as a deep understanding of the connections between people, and between all of us and our world. His work focuses on those moments in life where our material and spiritual realities conjoin, though it’s taken years — and a distinct rebalancing by Coupland — for this aspect of his writing to come to the forefront of his reviewers’ minds. But then again, who can blame them for strong preconceptions when Coupland’s first book, Generation X (1991), skipped the obscurity that...
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Highly Inappropriate Tales for Young People
eBook | pages | Random House Canada | Fiction - Humorous; Fiction - Short Stories (single author); Comics & Graphic Novels
978-0-307-36068-7 (0-307-36068-7)
November 22, 2011 | $24.00
In the grand tradition of Edward Gorey's Gashlycrumb Tinies, Tim Burton's Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Hillaire Belloc's Cautionary Tales for Children, comes Douglas Coupland and Graham Roumieu's Highly Inappropriate Tales for Young People.
Ever wonder what would happen if Douglas Coupland's unhinged imagination met Graham Roumieu's insane knack for illustrating...
Written by Douglas Coupland and Graham Roumieu
eBook | pages | Random House Canada | Fiction - Humorous; Fiction - Short Stories (single author); Comics & Graphic Novels
978-0-307-36068-7 (0-307-36068-7)
November 22, 2011 | $24.00
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In the grand tradition of Edward Gorey's Gashlycrumb Tinies, Tim Burton's Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Hillaire Belloc's Cautionary Tales for Children, comes Douglas Coupland and Graham Roumieu's Highly Inappropriate Tales for Young People.
Ever wonder what would happen if Douglas Coupland's unhinged imagination met Graham Roumieu's insane knack for illustrating...
Also available as a
hardcover.
Highly Inappropriate Tales for Young People
Hardcover | 144 pages | Random House Canada | Fiction - Humorous; Fiction - Short Stories (single author); Comics & Graphic Novels
978-0-307-36066-3 (0-307-36066-0)
October 25, 2011 | $24.00
In the grand tradition of Edward Gorey's Gashlycrumb Tinies, Tim Burton's Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Hillaire Belloc's Cautionary Tales for Children, comes Douglas Coupland and Graham Roumieu's Highly Inappropriate Tales for Young People.
Ever wonder what would happen if Douglas Coupland's unhinged imagination met Graham Roumieu's insane knack for illustrating...
Written by Douglas Coupland and Graham Roumieu
Hardcover | 144 pages | Random House Canada | Fiction - Humorous; Fiction - Short Stories (single author); Comics & Graphic Novels
978-0-307-36066-3 (0-307-36066-0)
October 25, 2011 | $24.00
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In the grand tradition of Edward Gorey's Gashlycrumb Tinies, Tim Burton's Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Hillaire Belloc's Cautionary Tales for Children, comes Douglas Coupland and Graham Roumieu's Highly Inappropriate Tales for Young People.
Ever wonder what would happen if Douglas Coupland's unhinged imagination met Graham Roumieu's insane knack for illustrating...
Also available as an
eBook.
JPod
eBook | pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-37139-3 (0-307-37139-5)
March 18, 2011 | $21.00
A lethal joyride into today’s new breed of technogeeks, Coupland’s forthcoming novel updates Microserfs for the age of Google.
Ethan Jarlewski and five co-workers whose names start with J are bureaucratically marooned in jPod. jPod is a no-escape architectural limbo on the fringes of a massive Vancouver game design company.
The six workers...
Written by Douglas Coupland
eBook | pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-37139-3 (0-307-37139-5)
March 18, 2011 | $21.00
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A lethal joyride into today’s new breed of technogeeks, Coupland’s forthcoming novel updates Microserfs for the age of Google.
Ethan Jarlewski and five co-workers whose names start with J are bureaucratically marooned in jPod. jPod is a no-escape architectural limbo on the fringes of a massive Vancouver game design company.
The six workers...
Also available as an
unabridged audiobook download and a
trade paperback.
Miss Wyoming
eBook | pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-36737-2 (0-307-36737-1)
October 8, 2010 | $13.95
From the bestselling author of Generation X and Microserfs,comes the absurd and tender story of a hard-living movie producer and a former child beauty pageant contender who only find each other by losing themselves.
Waking up in an L.A. hospital, John Johnson is amazed that it was the flu and not an...
Written by Douglas Coupland
eBook | pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-36737-2 (0-307-36737-1)
October 8, 2010 | $13.95
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From the bestselling author of Generation X and Microserfs,comes the absurd and tender story of a hard-living movie producer and a former child beauty pageant contender who only find each other by losing themselves.
Waking up in an L.A. hospital, John Johnson is amazed that it was the flu and not an...
Generation A
Trade Paperback | 320 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-35773-1 (0-307-35773-2)
March 9, 2010 | $21.00
“Now you young twerps want a new name for your generation? Probably not, you just want jobs, right? Well, the media do us all such tremendous favors when they call you Generation X, right? Two clicks from the very end of the alphabet. I hereby declare you Generation A, as much...
Written by Douglas Coupland
Trade Paperback | 320 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-35773-1 (0-307-35773-2)
March 9, 2010 | $21.00
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“Now you young twerps want a new name for your generation? Probably not, you just want jobs, right? Well, the media do us all such tremendous favors when they call you Generation X, right? Two clicks from the very end of the alphabet. I hereby declare you Generation A, as much...
Also available as an
eBook.
Eleanor Rigby
eBook | 272 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-37537-7 (0-307-37537-4)
January 11, 2010 | $13.95
“The Liz Dunns of this world tend to get married, and then twenty-three months after their wedding and the birth of their first child they establish sensible lower maintenance hairdos that last them forever. Liz Dunns take classes in croissant baking, and would rather chew on soccer balls than deny their...
Written by Douglas Coupland
eBook | 272 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-37537-7 (0-307-37537-4)
January 11, 2010 | $13.95
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“The Liz Dunns of this world tend to get married, and then twenty-three months after their wedding and the birth of their first child they establish sensible lower maintenance hairdos that last them forever. Liz Dunns take classes in croissant baking, and would rather chew on soccer balls than deny their...
Also available as a
trade paperback.
All Families are Psychotic
eBook | 288 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-37360-1 (0-307-37360-6)
January 8, 2010 | $14.95
Psychosis: any form of severe mental disorder in which the individual’s contact with reality becomes highly distorted.
Douglas Coupland, the author whom Tom Wolfe calls “one of the freshest, most exciting voices of the novel today,” delivers his tenth book in ten years of writing, with All Families Are Psychotic. Coupland recently...
Written by Douglas Coupland
eBook | 288 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-37360-1 (0-307-37360-6)
January 8, 2010 | $14.95
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Psychosis: any form of severe mental disorder in which the individual’s contact with reality becomes highly distorted.
Douglas Coupland, the author whom Tom Wolfe calls “one of the freshest, most exciting voices of the novel today,” delivers his tenth book in ten years of writing, with All Families Are Psychotic. Coupland recently...
Also available as a
trade paperback.
Generation A
eBook | 320 pages | Random House Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-37279-6 (0-307-37279-0)
September 1, 2009 | $21.00
“Now you young twerps want a new name for your generation? Probably not, you just want jobs, right? Well, the media do us all such tremendous favors when they call you Generation X, right? Two clicks from the very end of the alphabet. I hereby declare you Generation A, as much...
Written by Douglas Coupland
eBook | 320 pages | Random House Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-37279-6 (0-307-37279-0)
September 1, 2009 | $21.00
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“Now you young twerps want a new name for your generation? Probably not, you just want jobs, right? Well, the media do us all such tremendous favors when they call you Generation X, right? Two clicks from the very end of the alphabet. I hereby declare you Generation A, as much...
Also available as a
trade paperback.
Hey Nostradamus!
eBook | 256 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-37140-9 (0-307-37140-9)
April 3, 2009 | $14.95
Written by Douglas Coupland
eBook | 256 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-37140-9 (0-307-37140-9)
April 3, 2009 | $14.95
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Four people’s lives are set adrift in the wake of a high school shooting—three can’t escape the loneliness that plagues them, while a fourth races for oblivion, wondering what happened to God. Bristling with Douglas Coupland’s hallmark humor and cultural acuity, Hey Nostradamus! achieves new heights of poignancy and literary accomplishment.
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Also available as a
trade paperback.
The Gum Thief
eBook | 288 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-37138-6 (0-307-37138-7)
March 18, 2009 | $21.00
The first and only story of love and looming apocalypse set in the aisles of an office supply superstore.
In Douglas Coupland’s ingenious new novel–sort of a Clerks-meets-Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf–we meet Roger, a divorced, middle-aged “aisles associate” at a Staples outlet, condemned to restocking reams of twenty-lb. bond paper for...
Written by Douglas Coupland
eBook | 288 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-37138-6 (0-307-37138-7)
March 18, 2009 | $21.00
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The first and only story of love and looming apocalypse set in the aisles of an office supply superstore.
In Douglas Coupland’s ingenious new novel–sort of a Clerks-meets-Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf–we meet Roger, a divorced, middle-aged “aisles associate” at a Staples outlet, condemned to restocking reams of twenty-lb. bond paper for...
Also available as a
trade paperback.
The Gum Thief
Trade Paperback | 288 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-35627-7 (0-307-35627-2)
June 17, 2008 | $21.00
The first and only story of love and looming apocalypse set in the aisles of an office supply superstore.
In Douglas Coupland’s ingenious new novel–sort of a Clerks-meets-Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf–we meet Roger, a divorced, middle-aged “aisles associate” at a Staples outlet, condemned to restocking reams of twenty-lb. bond paper for...
Written by Douglas Coupland
Trade Paperback | 288 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-35627-7 (0-307-35627-2)
June 17, 2008 | $21.00
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The first and only story of love and looming apocalypse set in the aisles of an office supply superstore.
In Douglas Coupland’s ingenious new novel–sort of a Clerks-meets-Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf–we meet Roger, a divorced, middle-aged “aisles associate” at a Staples outlet, condemned to restocking reams of twenty-lb. bond paper for...
Also available as an
eBook.
JPod
Trade Paperback | 528 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-679-31425-7 (0-679-31425-3)
January 2, 2007 | $21.00
A lethal joyride into today’s new breed of technogeeks, Coupland’s forthcoming novel updates Microserfs for the age of Google.
Ethan Jarlewski and five co-workers whose names start with J are bureaucratically marooned in jPod. jPod is a no-escape architectural limbo on the fringes of a massive Vancouver game design company.
The six workers...
Written by Douglas Coupland
Trade Paperback | 528 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-679-31425-7 (0-679-31425-3)
January 2, 2007 | $21.00
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A lethal joyride into today’s new breed of technogeeks, Coupland’s forthcoming novel updates Microserfs for the age of Google.
Ethan Jarlewski and five co-workers whose names start with J are bureaucratically marooned in jPod. jPod is a no-escape architectural limbo on the fringes of a massive Vancouver game design company.
The six workers...
Also available as an
unabridged audiobook download and an
eBook.
JPod
Unabridged Audiobook Download | pages | Random House Audio | Fiction
978-0-7393-4028-8 (0-7393-4028-X)
May 16, 2006 | $29.95
Very evil…very funny
A lethal joyride into today’s new breed of technogeeks, Douglas Coupland’s new novel updates Microserfs for the age of Google.
Ethan Jarlewski and five co-workers are bureaucratically marooned in JPod, a no-escape architectural limbo on the fringes of a massive Vancouver video game design company.
The six jPodders wage daily battle...
Unabridged Audiobook Download | pages | Random House Audio | Fiction
978-0-7393-4028-8 (0-7393-4028-X)
May 16, 2006 | $29.95
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Very evil…very funny
A lethal joyride into today’s new breed of technogeeks, Douglas Coupland’s new novel updates Microserfs for the age of Google.
Ethan Jarlewski and five co-workers are bureaucratically marooned in JPod, a no-escape architectural limbo on the fringes of a massive Vancouver video game design company.
The six jPodders wage daily battle...
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
Eleanor Rigby
Trade Paperback | 272 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-679-31338-0 (0-679-31338-9)
October 11, 2005 | $21.00
“The Liz Dunns of this world tend to get married, and then twenty-three months after their wedding and the birth of their first child they establish sensible lower maintenance hairdos that last them forever. Liz Dunns take classes in croissant baking, and would rather chew on soccer balls than deny their...
Written by Douglas Coupland
Trade Paperback | 272 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-679-31338-0 (0-679-31338-9)
October 11, 2005 | $21.00
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“The Liz Dunns of this world tend to get married, and then twenty-three months after their wedding and the birth of their first child they establish sensible lower maintenance hairdos that last them forever. Liz Dunns take classes in croissant baking, and would rather chew on soccer balls than deny their...
Also available as an
eBook.
Hey Nostradamus!
Trade Paperback | 256 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-679-31270-3 (0-679-31270-6)
June 29, 2004 | $21.00
GOD IS NOWHERE GOD IS NOW HERE
GOD IS NOWHERE GOD IS NOW HERE
Using the voices of four characters deeply affected by a high-school shooting, though in remarkably different ways, Douglas Coupland explores the lingering aftermath of one horrifying event, and questions what it means to come through grief – and to...
Written by Douglas Coupland
Trade Paperback | 256 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-679-31270-3 (0-679-31270-6)
June 29, 2004 | $21.00
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GOD IS NOWHERE GOD IS NOW HERE
GOD IS NOWHERE GOD IS NOW HERE
Using the voices of four characters deeply affected by a high-school shooting, though in remarkably different ways, Douglas Coupland explores the lingering aftermath of one horrifying event, and questions what it means to come through grief – and to...
Also available as an
eBook.
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