ISBN: 9780887842801

What Is to Become of Us International bestselling author Douglas Coupland delivers a real-time, five-hour story set in an airport cocktail lounge during a global disaster. Five disparate … More...

What Is to Become of Us International bestselling author Douglas Coupland delivers a real-time, five-hour story set in an airport cocktail lounge during a global disaster. Five disparate people are trapped inside: Karen, a single mother waiting for her online date Rick, the down-on-his-luck airport lounge bartender Luke, a pastor on the run Rachel, a cool Hitchcock blonde incapable of true human contact and finally a mysterious voice known as Player One. Slowly, each reveals the truth about themselves while the world as they know it comes to an end.In the tradition of Kurt Vonnegut and J. G. Ballard, Coupland explores the modern crises of time, human identity, society, religion, and the afterlife. The book asks as many questions as it answers, and readers will leave the story with no doubt that we are in a new phase of existence as a species and that there is no turning back. Player One: International bestselling author Douglas Coupland delivers a real-time, five-hour story set in an airport cocktail lounge during a global disaster. Five disparate people are trapped inside: Karen, a single mother waiting for her online date Rick, the down-on-his-luck airport lounge bartender Luke, a pastor on the run Rachel, a cool Hitchcock blonde incapable of true human contact and finally a mysterious voice known as Player One. Slowly, each reveals the truth about themselves while the world as they know it comes to an end.In the tradition of Kurt Vonnegut and J. G. Ballard, Coupland explores the modern crises of time, human identity, society, religion, and the afterlife. The book asks as many questions as it answers, and readers will leave the story with no doubt that we are in a new phase of existence as a species and that there is no turning back., House Of Anansi Press<

2010, ISBN: 9780887842801

The 2010 edition of our bestselling CBC Massey Lectures, by acclaimed author Douglas Coupland. The new CBC Massey Lectures - the most prestigious and eagerly anticipated nonfiction series… More...

The 2010 edition of our bestselling CBC Massey Lectures, by acclaimed author Douglas Coupland. The new CBC Massey Lectures - the most prestigious and eagerly anticipated nonfiction series of the year - are being delivered in 2010 by acclaimed novelist and visual artist Douglas Coupland. Coupland's 2010 Massey Lecture is a real-time five-hour story that explores the modern crises of time, human identity, society, religion, macroeconomics, and the afterlife. It is set in an airport cocktail lounge during five hours of a global disaster, and it asks readers: At what point do humans stop being human and become something else? Where, if anywhere, do modernity and classical theology overlap? What is Time? What is the human essence? And how does storytelling fit into all of this? In the tradition of Kurt Vonnegut and J. G. Ballard, Coupland locates his story and characters in an extreme situation and then pushes the implications as far as possible. Are we ants or are we divine? And where can we now locate meaning? The book asks as many questions as it answers, and readers will leave the book with no doubt that we are in a new phase of existence as a species - and that there is no turning back. eBook<

ISBN: 9780887842801

Player One: What is to Become of Us Player-One~~Douglas-Coupland Fiction>Fiction>Fiction NOOK Book (eBook), House of Anansi Press Inc

2011, ISBN: 9780887842801

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