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Souvenir of Canada

By Douglas Coupland

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| Paperback | 9781550549171

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Book Description

Renown writer and artist Douglas Coupland's valentine to Canada looks at how it feels to be a Canadian now and imagines what it might feel like to be a Canadian in the future. From collective memories, Coupland locates objects like stubbie beer bottles and ookpiks, Kraft dinner and maple walnut ice Continue

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Souvenir of Canada By Douglas Coupland

Canadians have long been regarded as country cousins by their counterparts in the States: Molson-swilling, hockey-watching roughnecks who go inexplicably dewy-eyed at the first acoustic guitar notes of a Gordon Lightfoot ballad. As is often the case, ... (read full critics)

bookpage published on Thu, 16 Sep 2010

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A really neat look at Canada, which is part picture book and part thematic essays on all things Canadian. It's a good coffee table book, with a lot of funny bits and interesting photos of everything from stubbies to a Vancouver crack den.

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