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Polaroids from the Dead

By Douglas Coupland

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| Audio Cassette | 9780694517145

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"The pieces in this book reflect an early-1990s worldview that seems time expired now jettisoned behind us like sparkling chunks of Apollo rocket tumbling back to earth." Douglas Coupland

Douglas Coupland takes his sparkling literary talent in a new direction with this crackling collectiContinue

"The pieces in this book reflect an early-1990s worldview that seems time expired now jettisoned behind us like sparkling chunks of Apollo rocket tumbling back to earth." Douglas Coupland

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 Marilyn Monroe, Kurt Cobain 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 the pivotal people and places that have defined our modern lives. Polaroids from the Dead is a skillful combination of stories, fact and fiction keen outtakes on life in the 20th century, exploring the recent past and a society obsessed with celebrity, crime and death. Princess Diana, Nicole Brown Simpson and Madonna are but some of the people scrutinized herein.

By turns hugely funny, savagely ironic, and poignantly searching, this collection has appeal for everyone cognizant of the first half of this decade and looking for navigation in the second.

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  • Polaroids from the Dead

    by Douglas Coupland The “Polaroids” that give Douglas Coupland’s new collection of essays and short stories its title are a series of 10 vignettes, each focusing on the experiences of different people attending a Grateful Dead concert in Oakland, Cal ... (read full critics)

    quillandquire published on Tue, 14 Sep 2010

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  • English Books
  • Audio Cassette
  • ISBN-10: 0694517143
  • ISBN-13: 9780694517145
  • Publisher: Harper Audio
  • Pub date: May 01, 1996
  • Also available as: Paperback, Hardcover and Others
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