Girlfriend in a Coma - Brossura

Coupland, Douglas

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0060987324 ISBN 13: 9780060987329

Casa editrice: Regan Books, 1999

Riassunto

After making love for the first time, high school senior Karen Ann McNeil confides to her boyfriend Richard of the dark visions she's been recently suffering. It's only a few hours later on that snowy Friday night in 1979 that she descends into a coma. Nine months later she gives birth to a daughter, Megan, her child by Richard, the protagonist of this disturbingly funny novel.

Karen remains comatose for the next seventeen years. Richard and her circle of friends reside in an emotional purgatory throughout the next two decades; passing through careers as models, film special effects technicians, doctors, and demolition experts, before finally being reunited on a conspiracy–driven supernatural television series.

Upon Karen's reawakening, life grows as surreal as their television show. With apocalyptic events occurring, Karen, Richard, and their friends explore the essential mysteries of life, faith, decency, and existence. Amid the world's rubble they attempt to restore their own humanity.

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Recensione:

"Part Stephen King, part It's a Wonderful Life, with a little of his own Generation X thrown in, Coupland's immensely readable . . . novel shows him scared of the future and sounding the alarm for the millennium." (Booklist)

"His strongest novel to date." (People)

"To call Coupland the John Bunyon of his set would not be hyperbole, especially in light of his newest book, the...fantastical Girlfriend in a Coma, which at times approaches a jeremiad worthy of Kurt Vonnegut...[A] rousingly old-fashioned and genuinely spooky morality play." (The Washington Post)

"... Coupland's dialogue is flip and fresh." (New York magazine)

"...a message of hope and a challenge to...cynicism." (USA Today)

L'autore:

Douglas Coupland is the author of twelve novels, including Generation X and Microserfs, and several works of nonfiction, including Polaroids from the Dead. He lives and works in Vancouver, Canada.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Regan Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0060987324
• ISBN 13: 9780060987329
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 284