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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"Douglas Coupland continues to register the buzz of his generation with a fidelity that should shame most professional Zeitgeist chasers." -- Jay McInerney, New York Times Book Review
"Coupland has at his disposal a dazzling array of tools with which to shape the emotions of his readers: the whimsy of a latter-day Jack Kerouac, the irony of a young Kurt Vonnegut, the poignancy of early John Irving." -- Bookpage quote; The self-wrought oracle of our age." -- John Fraser, Saturday Night
Douglas Coupland was born on a Canadian NATO base in Badensollingen, Germany in 1961. He is the author of six other books, including Generation X and Life After God. He grew up and lives in Vancouver.
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Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fair. Solid binding. Moderate edgewear on the boards. Moderate shelf wear. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item. Book. Codice articolo 123639540
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Da: Yesterday's Muse, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA, Webster, NY, U.S.A.
Hard Cover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First Canadian Edition. First Canadian edition. Belly band included. Tiny crease to front flap. 1999 Hard Cover. Meet Susan Colgate -- Miss Wyoming. Winner of a hundred teen pageants, child star of Meet the Blooms (America's favourite family), owner of a hideously pushy mother.and now reduced to small, brainless parts in small, brainless movies. Oh, and sole survivor of Flight 802. If she were to walk away from the wreckage now, before the emergency crews get here, she could disappear and nobody would ever know.Meet John Johnson -- action film star (Bel Air P.I.um, Bel Air P.I. 2), occasional sado-masochist, junkie. He just died -- but only for 5 minutes. All the crap he's done to his body over the years, and it's a flu that killed him! But while he was gone, he saw a vision of a woman's face and realized that it was time to escape, to ditch the baggage of being horny, rich, lonely John Johnson and to lose himself. Codice articolo 2305298
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Da: Glands of Destiny First Edition Books, Sedro Woolley, WA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condizione: As New. Publisher: Random House Canada Limited, 1999.First Edition, First Printing. FINE hardcover book in FINE dust-jacket. Not remainder marked. Not price-clipped. Not a book club edition. Not an ex-library copy. All of our books with dust-jackets are shipped in fresh, archival-safe mylar protective sleeves. Codice articolo SKU1030315
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Da: A Good Read, Toronto, ON, Canada
Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. Slight rubbing to tips of boards. A Good Read ships from Toronto and Niagara Falls, NY - customers outside of North America please allow two to three weeks for delivery. ; 8.60 X 5.80 X 1.10 inches; 341 pages. Codice articolo 70855
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Da: Samson Books, Trenton, ON, Canada
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Da: Ken Jackson, Calgary, AB, Canada
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Da: Alex Simpson, Carrying Place, ON, Canada
Hard Cover. Condizione: VG. Condizione sovraccoperta: VG. First Edition. First printing. Name markered over upper right of the front free endpaper and light soil to outer edges. DJ has light edge/rub wear. Actual book for sale pictured. 14.9 x 21.7 x 2.8cm, wt650g Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Codice articolo 008635
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