City Of Glass Douglas Couplands Vancouver

Author : Douglas Coupland
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781553653592
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book City of Glass written by Douglas Coupland and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This irresistible little book offers a very different take on Vancouver, one of the world's most beautiful cities. Douglas Coupland applies his unique sensibility to everything from the Grouse Grind to glass towers, First Nations to feng shui, Kitsilano to Cantonese. Cleverly designed to mimic an underground Japanese magazine, this edition is fully updated and revised with riffs on Vancouver as a neon city, a land of treehuggers, and more.

Author : Douglas Coupland
Publisher : Douglas & McIntyre Limited
ISBN 13 : 9781550549171
Total Pages : 143 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Souvenir of Canada written by Douglas Coupland and published by Douglas & McIntyre Limited. This book was released on 2002 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Douglas Coupland's valentine to Canada looks at how it feels to be a Canadiannow and imagines what it might feel like to be a Canadian in the future.

Author : Douglas Coupland
Publisher : Vintage Canada
ISBN 13 : 0307371409
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hey Nostradamus! written by Douglas Coupland and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2009-04-03 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four people’s lives are set adrift in the wake of a high school shooting—three can’t escape the loneliness that plagues them, while a fourth races for oblivion, wondering what happened to God. Bristling with Douglas Coupland’s hallmark humor and cultural acuity, Hey Nostradamus! achieves new heights of poignancy and literary accomplishment.

Author : Douglas Coupland
Publisher : Vintage Canada
ISBN 13 : 0307373606
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book All Families are Psychotic written by Douglas Coupland and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2010-01-08 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Psychosis: any form of severe mental disorder in which the individual’s contact with reality becomes highly distorted. 65-year-old Janet Drummond checks the clock in her cheap motel room near Cape Canaveral, takes her prescription pills and does a rapid tally of the whereabouts of her three children: Wade, the eldest, in and out of jail and still radiating "the glint”; suicidal Bryan, whose girlfriend, the vowel-free Shw, is pregnant; and Sarah, the family’s shining light, an astronaut preparing to be launched into space as the star of a shuttle mission. They will all arrive in Orlando—along with Janet’s ex-husband Ted and his new trophy wife—setting the stage for the most disastrous family reunion in the history of fiction. Florida may never recover from their version of fun in the sun. Adultery, hostage-taking, a letter purloined from Princess Diana’s coffin, heart attacks at Disney World, bankruptcy, addiction and black-market negotiations—Coupland piles on one deft, comic plot twist after another, leaving you reaching for your seat belt. When the crash comes, it is surprisingly sweet. From lauded writer, visual artist and designer Douglas Coupland, All Families are Psychotic is sizzling and sharp-witted entertainment that resounds with eternal human yearnings.

Author : Charles Demers
Publisher : arsenal pulp press
ISBN 13 : 1551524368
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vancouver Special written by Charles Demers and published by arsenal pulp press. This book was released on 2010-03-01 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vancouver is at a crossroads in its history—host to the 2010 Winter Olympics and home to the poorest neighborhood in Canada, it is a young, multicultural city with a vibrant surface and a violent undercoat. In Vancouver Special, an alternative guidebook, writer and performer Charles Demers digs deep to examine the past, present, and future of Vancouver, shedding light on the various strategies and influences that have made the city what it is today (and what it should be). Vancouver Special is a love letter to the city, taking a no-holds-barred look at Lotusland with verve, wit, and insight.

Author : Douglas Coupland
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312054366
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.6X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Generation X written by Douglas Coupland and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1991 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three twenty-something young adults, working at low-paying, no-future jobs, tell one another modern tales of love and death.

Author : Douglas Coupland
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0671755064
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shampoo Planet written by Douglas Coupland and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1993-05 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite their differing values, Tyler Johnson, an ambitious hotel management student, tries to console his mother, a former hippie, when Dan, his land-developer stepfather, decides to get a divorce.

Author : Douglas Coupland
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0375727809
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Miss Wyoming written by Douglas Coupland and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2001-04-25 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : George Stanley
Publisher : New Star Books
ISBN 13 : 1554200385
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vancouver written by George Stanley and published by New Star Books. This book was released on 2008-04-20 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Lions bare of snow, crowded express buses, a giant red turning letter W. Vancouver: A Poem is George Stanley's vision of the city where he lives, though he does not call it his own. Vancouver, the city, becomes Stanley's palimpsest: an overwritten manuscript on which the words of others are still faintly visible. Here the Food Floor's canned exotica, here the stores of Chinatown, here the Cobalt Hotel brimful of cheap beer and indifferent women. The poet travels through the urban landscape on foot and by public transit, observing the multifarious life around him, noting the at times abrupt changes in the built environment, and vestiges of its brief history. As he records his perceptions, the city enters his consciousness in unforeseen ways, imposing its categories and language. Skirting chestnuts on the sidewalk or reading William Carlos Williams's "Paterson" on the Granville Bridge, the poet travels along the inlet, past the mountains, under the trees, interrogating the local world with his words.

Author : Douglas Coupland
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 147110558X
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Life After God written by Douglas Coupland and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-12-25 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: YOU ARE THE FIRST GENERATION RAISED WITHOUT RELIGION What happens if we are raised without religion or beliefs? As we grow older, the beauty and disenchantments of the world temper our souls. We all have spiritual impulses, yet where do these impulses flow in a world of commodities and consumerism? LIFE AFTER GOD is a compellingly innovative collection of stories responding to these themes. Douglas Coupland takes us into worlds we know exist but rarely see, finding rare grace amid our pre-millennium turmoil.