Recensione:
A KIRKUS BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
“Coupland is possibly the most gifted exegete of North American mass culture writing today.... JPod is without a doubt his strongest, best-observed novel since Microserfs.”
–The Guardian (UK)
“Coupland explores the landscape of our rapidly globalizing culture like a tourist armed with a digital camera and a limitless memory card, taking snapshots of everything that catches his eye.”
–The Vancouver Sun
“A first-rate novelist and observer of the contemporary scene.”
–National Post
“[Coupland has] given us a rollicking good, larger-than-life read.”
–Ottawa Citizen
“[Coupland] once again nails the zeitgeist of the age.... The best thing about JPod is its characteristic good writing ... and its dark, unflagging wit.”
–Calgary Sun
“Coupland is an accomplished and talented writer whose books are perennial bestsellers.”
–Quill & Quire
“[JPod] is a work in which his familiar misgivings about life on the technological cusp are again invoked, but also one in which the skills he’s been developing as a novelist pay off, where his satirical streak and his social consciousness finally stop fooling around with each other and settle down together.... JPod is a sleek and necessary device: the finely tuned output of an author whose obsolescence is thankfully years away.”
–The New York Times Book Review
“JPod is a seriously funny book,...a rolling thunder of sustained comedy, first page to last, as it ends up, and skewers the shamelessness and amorality that define our era.... Coupland’s timing is impeccable: JPod is the right book at the right time.”
–The Globe and Mail
Praise for Eleanor Rigby:
“Coupland’s. . .most accomplished work to date. . .could be one of the first great novels of the new century.”
––Kirkus (starred review)
“Eleanor Rigby. . .might prove to be among the best fiction of this new year.”
–Los Angeles Times
“What makes him hit us again and again, as though he were pelting meteorites from on high, is his ability to connect with ordinary human emotions and to make them profound.”
–Elle (Canada)
Praise for Hey Nostradamus!:
“A leap sideways from the acid irony which has shaded some of Coupland’s earlier novels. Instead, from the pen of one of the coolest authors on the planet has come a work of suffusing humanity.”
–Sunday Herald (UK)
“The leading literary voice of the most cynical generation lets it all out in a blaze of spirituality, terror, high comedy and soul-searching, and does it all in a way that is caring and clever, heartbreaking and hilarious, tough and tender. . .not only Coupland’s best novel, but also one of the best of the year.”
–The Hamilton Spectator
L'autore:
Douglas Coupland was born on a NATO base in Germany in 1961. He is the author of Eleanor Rigby, Hey Nostradamus!, All Families Are Psychotic, Microserfs and Generation X, among others. He is also a visual artist and sculptor, furniture designer and screenwriter, as well as the author of Souvenir of Canada and its sequel, Souvenir of Canada 2. His most recent book is Terry, the story of Terry Fox. He lives and works in Vancouver.
From the Hardcover edition.
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