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Generation A

A Novel

By Douglas Coupland

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| eBook | 9781439160374

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Now in paperback from “one of the great satirists of modern disposable culture” ( Sunday Telegraph ) and author of the bestselling classic Generation X, comes a “piercing analysis of our modern society” ( BookPage ) that reimagines the very act of reading and storytelling in a crazed digital world. Continue


Now in paperback from “one of the great satirists of modern disposable culture” ( Sunday Telegraph ) and author of the bestselling classic Generation X, comes a “piercing analysis of our modern society” ( BookPage ) that reimagines the very act of reading and storytelling in a crazed digital world.

“This is Coupland’s paean to reading, to the crafting of tales and, ultimately, to the power of language.” — Time Out New York

“Fans of Coupland will rejoice: here is another bizarre, postmodern fable.…Coupland’s audacious flights of fancy, his laugh-out-loud dialogue, and his magnificent ability to bring it all back to storytelling and orange-flavour Tang, they’re all here…Such a treat.” — Independent on Sunday (London)

Mirroring Coupland’s 1991 debut novel, Generation X, Generation A 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.

Set in the near future in an world where bees are thought to be extinct, until five unconnected people from 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.

Profound, inventive, and fantastically entertaining, Generation A is Coupland’s most ambitious work to date.

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  • Generation A by Douglas Coupland

    Douglas Coupland has long been a shrewd observer of modernity. He shares Brett Easton Ellis's concern with the enervating effects of consumerism and Chuck Palahniuk's fascination with strange subcultures. But Coupland is more optimistic than these tw ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Fri, 24 Sep 2010

  • Generation A, by Douglas Coupland

    Home Contact us Posts Comments Generation X, a tale of youth in revolt against an increasingly consumerist society, was Douglas Coupland’s hugely successful first novel and he has returned, with moderate success, to the same style of framed narrative ... (read full critics)

    bookgeeks published on Fri, 24 Sep 2010

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    Generation A

    This was my 7th Coupland to date. I don't think Generation A was his best, but maybe that is only because I know what to expect. Plotwise Generation A could have been a lot better, especially the last 20 or so pages. But Coupland's strength has never been in the plot, but in the mono- ... (continue)

    This was my 7th Coupland to date. I don't think Generation A was his best, but maybe that is only because I know what to expect. Plotwise Generation A could have been a lot better, especially the last 20 or so pages. But Coupland's strength has never been in the plot, but in the mono- and dialogue, and the analysis of modern-day culture. The things his characters think or say had me laughing more than once, and had me thinking about myself and us on this weird planet even more. I will not say anything about the story here, for you can look that up elsewhere. Suffice it to say that I recommend this book and can't wait to read the next Coupland novel.

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    Corstin said on May 31, 2010 about the Others edition | Add your feedback

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    "When you read a book, whose voice is it you hear inside your head?"

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    Lili said on Nov 21, 2010 about the Others edition | Add your feedback

  • This is my last Coupland book.

    Mr Coupland, please: next time you want to write two-pages weird short stories, do it on your blog, not in a book you sell. This is the very last one I buy, anyway. You lost your elan, there is no more charme in what you are writing. The Gum Thief was not so good, but this is really embarassing. Ple ... (continue)

    Mr Coupland, please: next time you want to write two-pages weird short stories, do it on your blog, not in a book you sell. This is the very last one I buy, anyway. You lost your elan, there is no more charme in what you are writing. The Gum Thief was not so good, but this is really embarassing. Please.

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    Lenz said on Oct 15, 2010 about the Others edition | Add your feedback

  • Like Decameron, just better.

    What a treat. A hopeful novel that's full of humanity with a bunch of characters that epitomize Coupland's entertaining abilities. With amazing ideas like the earth sandwich that are so Couplanesque. Full of subtext and profound reflections on what technology is doing to us all. This is Coupland at ... (continue)

    What a treat. A hopeful novel that's full of humanity with a bunch of characters that epitomize Coupland's entertaining abilities. With amazing ideas like the earth sandwich that are so Couplanesque. Full of subtext and profound reflections on what technology is doing to us all. This is Coupland at his best. Rich, thought provoking and always living ahead of everybody else. Still by far the best writer around. Thanks Doug, you've nailed it again. Can't wait for the next one.

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    nuriape said on Dec 3, 2009 about the Others edition | Add your feedback

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