Eleanor Rigby

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• Amazing grace

  Eleanor Rigby by Douglas Coupland 250pp, Fourth Estate, £15.99 What happens when the official chronicler of youth writes about the no-longer young? In other words, what happens when Douglas Coupland hits middle age? Coupland began the 1990s giving th ... (read full critics)

  guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

• A slave of solitude

  Loneliness is a pearl of great price among novelists. Fiction, drawing so much of its inspiration from groups, communities and societies, nevertheless cherishes the idea of solitude, of the hero or heroine outcast and apart, thrown upon their own res ... (read full critics)

  spectator published on Fri, 17 Sep 2010

4 Reviews

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  " it's difficult to speak with beautiful people. no matter how hard you try to pretend otherwise, you still want them to like you. we are a wretched, shallow species. "

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  kovalski said on Nov 1, 2011 | Add your feedback

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  I liked it, which comes as a surprise, given the mostly bad reviews I read on some newspapers' websites.

  It's a book about loneliness, about the power of unforeseen surprises in life to change a person's perspective on the world and themselves.

  I actually liked Liz Dunn: it's true, sometimes she ... (continue)

  I liked it, which comes as a surprise, given the mostly bad reviews I read on some newspapers' websites.

  It's a book about loneliness, about the power of unforeseen surprises in life to change a person's perspective on the world and themselves.

  I actually liked Liz Dunn: it's true, sometimes she reminds us a tad too much of how friendless and lonely she is, but she doesn't do so with self-pity, and from her special position of loneliness and silence, she watches and describes the world that surrounds her wittily.

  Nice characters, nice story and good writing. It's my first Douglas Coupland, and I'm glad I started with one of the least read ones and liked it.

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  natalia said on Dec 5, 2009 | Add your feedback

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  Can't even remember what this book is about.

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  leo said on Jun 27, 2008 | Add your feedback

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  Review at http://community.livejournal.com/bookopolis/9382.html

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  Hold Your Spin said on Jul 8, 2007 | Add your feedback

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• English Books
• Paperback 336 Pages
• ISBN-10: 0007193831
• ISBN-13: 9780007193837
• Publisher: Fourth Estate
• Pub date: Sep 06, 2004
• Also available as: Hardcover and Others
• In other languages: other languages Livres Français, Deutsche Bücher, Libri Italiani

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