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Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture
ISBN: 9780349142593 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) The twenty-fifth anniversary edition of Douglas Coupland's classic.
The twenty-fifth anniversary edition of Douglas Coupland's classic.
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Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture
ISBN: 9781250810779 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) |
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Polaroids from the Dead
ISBN: 9780060987213 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Douglas Coupland takes his sparkling literary talent in a new direction with this crackling collection of takes on life and death in North America -- from his sweeping portrait of Grateful Dead culture to the deaths of Kurt Cobain, Marilyn Monroe and the middle class.
For years, Coupland's razor-sharp insights into what it means to be human in an age of technology have garnered the highest praise from fans and critics alike. At last, Coupland has assembled a wide variety of stories and personal "postcards" about pivotal people and places that have defined our modern lives. Polaroids... Douglas Coupland takes his sparkling literary talent in a new direction with this crackling collection of takes on life and death in North America -- ...
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Girlfriend in a Coma
ISBN: 9780061624254 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) On a snowy Friday night in 1979, just hours after making love for the first time, Richard's girlfriend, high school senior Karen Ann McNeil, falls into a coma. Nine months later she gives birth to their daughter, Megan. As Karen sleeps through the next seventeen years, Richard and their circle of friends reside in an emotional purgatory, passing through a variety of careers--modeling, film special effects, medicine, demolition--before finally reuniting on a conspiracy-driven super-natural television series. But real life grows as surreal as their TV show as Richard and his friends await... On a snowy Friday night in 1979, just hours after making love for the first time, Richard's girlfriend, high school senior Karen Ann McNeil, falls ... |
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Girlfriend in a Coma
ISBN: 9780006551270 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Girls, memory, parenting, millennial fear -- all served Coupland-style. Karen, an attractive, popular student, goes into a coma one night in 1979. Whilst in it, she gives birth to a healthy baby daughter; once out of it, a mere eighteen years later, she finds herself, Rip van Winkle-like, a middle-aged mother whose friends have all gone through all the normal marital, social and political traumas and back again... This tragicomedy shows Coupland in his most mature form yet, writing with all his customary powers of acute observation, but turning his attention away from the surface of modern...
Girls, memory, parenting, millennial fear -- all served Coupland-style. Karen, an attractive, popular student, goes into a coma one night in 1979. Whi...
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Generation A
ISBN: 9780099537380 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) In the near future bees are extinct - until one autumn when five individuals, in different parts of the world, are stung. Their shared experience unites them in ways they never could have imagined.
In the near future bees are extinct - until one autumn when five individuals, in different parts of the world, are stung. Their shared experience unit...
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Generation X. : Roman
ISBN: 9783351050603 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 2018 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) |
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Life after God
ISBN: 9780671874346 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) We are the first generation raised without God. We are creatures with strong religious impulses, yet they have nowhere to flow in this world of malls and TV, Kraft dinners and jets. How do we cope with loneliness? Anxiety? The collapse of relationships?
How do we reach the quiet, safe layer of our lives? In this compellingly innovative collection of stories, bestselling author Douglas Coupland responds to these themes. Cutting through the hype of modern living to find a rare grace amid our lives, he uncovers a new kind of truth for a culture stuck on fast-forward. A culture seemingly... We are the first generation raised without God. We are creatures with strong religious impulses, yet they have nowhere to flow in this world of malls ...
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Generation A
ISBN: 9781439157022 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Generation A is set in the near future in a world where bees are extinct, until five unconnected people all around the world-- in the United States, Canada, France, New Zealand, and Sri Lanka--are all stung. Their shared experience unites them in ways they never could have imagined. Generation A mirrors Coupland's debut novel, 1991's Generation X. It explores new ways of storytelling in a digital world. Like much of Coupland's writing, it occupies the perplexing hinterland between optimism about the future and everyday apocalyptic paranoia. Imaginative,... Generation A is set in the near future in a world where bees are extinct, until five unconnected people all around the world-- in the Unite... |
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Microserfs
ISBN: 9780007179817 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 371 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) From the bestselling author of 'Generation X', 'Microserfs' focuses on the subculture of computer programmers at Microsoft. Tied by high salaries to mindless jobs, the bright young things of Seattle are frustrated. Coupland again taps into the zeitgeist.
From the bestselling author of 'Generation X', 'Microserfs' focuses on the subculture of computer programmers at Microsoft. Tied by high salaries to m...
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Worst. Person. Ever.
ISBN: 9780099537397 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Meet Raymond Gunt. Raymond is a decent chap who tries to do the right thing. Or, to put it another way, the worst person ever: a foul-mouthed, misanthropic cameraman, trailing creditors, ex-wives and unhappy homeless people in his wake. Men dislike him, women flee from him. 'Worst. Person. Ever.' is a razor-sharp portrait of a morally bankrupt and gleefully wicked modern man.
Meet Raymond Gunt. Raymond is a decent chap who tries to do the right thing. Or, to put it another way, the worst person ever: a foul-mouthed, misanth...
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Microserfs
ISBN: 9780061624261 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) They are Microserfs--six code-crunching computer whizzes who spend upward of sixteen hours a day -coding- and eating -flat- foods (food which, like Kraft singles, can be passed underneath closed doors) as they fearfully scan company e-mail to learn whether the great Bill is going to -flame- one of them. But now there's a chance to become innovators instead of cogs in the gargantuan Microsoft machine. The intrepid Microserfs are striking out on their own--living together in a shared digital flophouse as they desperately try to cultivate well-rounded lives and find love amid the dislocated,... They are Microserfs--six code-crunching computer whizzes who spend upward of sixteen hours a day -coding- and eating -flat- foods (food which, like... |
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All Families are Psychotic
ISBN: 9780007117536 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) On the eve of the next Space Shuttle mission, a divided family comes together... Warm, witty and wise, All Families Are Psychotic is Coupland at the very top of his form: 'Irresistibly hilarious, unique and wonderful' Independent on Sunday In a cheap motel an hour from Cape Canaveral, Janet Drummond takes her medication, and does a rapid tally of the whereabouts of her children. Wade has spent the night in jail; suicidal Bryan is due to arrive at any moment with his vowel-free girlfriend, Shw; and then there is Sarah, 'a bolt of lightning frozen in midflash' -- here in Orlando to be the star...
On the eve of the next Space Shuttle mission, a divided family comes together... Warm, witty and wise, All Families Are Psychotic is Coupland at the v...
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Player One
ISBN: 9780099538189 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Five disparate people are trapped in an airport lounge during a global disaster: Karen, waiting for her online date; Rick, a down-on-his-luck bartender; Luke, a pastor on the run; Rachel, a cool blonde; and, finally, a mysterious voice known as Player One. Slowly, each reveals their true selves as the world as they know it comes to an end.
Five disparate people are trapped in an airport lounge during a global disaster: Karen, waiting for her online date; Rick, a down-on-his-luck bartende...
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Dis: #Artselfie
ISBN: 9782365680073 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) #artselfie opens with an incisive remark by Douglas Coupland: -Selfies are mirrors we can freeze ... Selfies allow us to see how others look at themselves in a mirror making their modeling face when nobody's around ... except these days, everybody's around everywhere all the time.- The #artselfie hashtag emerged in 2012 and was subsequently activated by New York-based collective DIS, as an aggregated mode of art-tourism and documentation. These selfies and their dialogue with art are an opportunity to revisit fundamental questions such as: if art is a mirror, what happens when we place...
#artselfie opens with an incisive remark by Douglas Coupland: -Selfies are mirrors we can freeze ... Selfies allow us to see how others look at...
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Bit Rot
ISBN: 9780099510895 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) In Bit Rot, Douglas Coupland explores the different ways in which twentieth-century notions of the future are being shredded, and creates a gem of the digital age. As Coupland writes, `bit rot also describes the way my brain has been feeling since 2000, as I shed older and weaker neurons and connections and enhance new and unexpected ones'.
In Bit Rot, Douglas Coupland explores the different ways in which twentieth-century notions of the future are being shredded, and creates a gem of the...
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Miss Wyoming
ISBN: 9780375707230 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) 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 overdose of five different drugs mixed with cognac that nearly killed him. As a producer of high-adrenaline action flicks, he's led a decadent and dangerous life, purchasing his way through every conceivable variant of sex. But each variation seems to take him one notch away from a capacity... 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 beaut...
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