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Miss Wyoming

(Vintage Contemporaries)

By Douglas Coupland

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| Paperback | 9780375707230

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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 andContinue

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 for love, and while movie-making was once a way for him to create worlds of sensation, it now bores him. After his near-death experience, John decides to walk away from his life.

Susan Colgate is an unbankable former tv star and child beauty pageant contender. Forced to marry a heavy metal singer in need of a Green Card after her parents squander her sitcom earnings, she becomes the alpha road rat. But when the band's popularity dwindles, the marriage dissolves. Flying back to Los Angeles in Economy, Susan's plane crashes   and only she survives. As she walks away from the disaster virtually unscathed, Susan, too, decides to disappear.

John and Susan are two souls searching for love across the bizarre, celebrity-obsessed landscape of LA, and are driven, almost fatefully, toward each other. Hilarious, fast-paced and ultimately heart-wrenching, Miss Wyoming is about people who, after throwing off their self-made identities, begin the fearful search for a love that exposes all vulnerabilities.

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  • Generation vexed

    Miss Wyoming Douglas Coupland Flamingo, £9.99, 311pp Buy it at BOL Douglas Coupland espouses the lives of the young and disenfranchised, the crazier the better. His kooky characters struggle to abandon the traditional structures of family, religion a ... (read full critics)

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

  • Every underdog has his day

    Miss Wyoming Douglas Coupland Flamingo £9.99, pp311 Douglas Coupland writes about people who don't fit in. His slackers and Net nerds are sparky misfits in convenience America, always in search of something, though they may not know exactly what it i ... (read full critics)

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

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    Probably the best Douglas Coupland's novel. The concept is pure genius, the parallel paths the protagonists go through are great, since just pure thematic analogy connects them. The climax is perfect: the real antagonist shows up does the only thing she should to to accomplish her criminal plot of c ... (continue)

    Probably the best Douglas Coupland's novel. The concept is pure genius, the parallel paths the protagonists go through are great, since just pure thematic analogy connects them. The climax is perfect: the real antagonist shows up does the only thing she should to to accomplish her criminal plot of completely subduing her daughter. Totally great.

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    Anatole Pierre Fuksas said on Aug 31, 2007 | Add your feedback

  • Probably a little bit too much going on, but anyway a great book. Funny and entertaining but also deep, if you allow it to be.
    Some characters would be worth a stand alone novel.

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    Matteo said on May 10, 2010 | Add your feedback

  • This book was hard to get into at first; but as the story progresses, it completely engages you.

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    Farida said on Jan 26, 2009 about the Hardcover edition | Add your feedback

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