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Scribner, June 2010
Trade Paperback, 320 pages
ISBN-10: 1439157022
ISBN-13: 9781439157022
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Generation A is set in the near future in a world where bees are extinct, until five unconnected people all around the world— in the United States, Canada, France, New Zealand, and Sri Lanka—are all stung. Their shared experience unites them in ways they never could have imagined.
Generation A mirrors Coupland’s debut novel, 1991’s Generation X. It explores new ways of storytelling in a digital world. Like much of Coupland’s writing, it occupies the perplexing hinterland between optimism about the future and everyday apocalyptic paranoia. Imaginative, inventive, and fantastically entertaining, Generation A is his most ambitious work to date.
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“A piercing analysis of our modern society, Generation A is exhilarating and insightful, bubbling with wit and verve…. Coupland is better than ever, and Generation A is certain to thrill readers of every generation.”
-- Bookpage
“Coupland is one of the few serious writers who seems to be living entirely in the present moment, or perhaps even a little ahead of it.”
-- Financial Times
“An intoxicating cocktail of literary influences…Coupland [is] a joy to read…A globally ambitious novel, and all the better for it.”
-- Guardian
“Highly recommended. Like Murakami in thriller-trope mode. Go for it.”
-- William Gibson
Bookseller, June 13, 2010
...Novelist Douglas Coupland has moved to Wm Heinemann, after the publisher beat off five others to buy UK and Commonwealth rights in two novels. The "major" deal was done with Eric Simonoff ...
Regina Leader-Post, May 15, 2010
...John Hughes. They were baby boomers, sure, but became famous as creators of Gen X cultural touchstones. Even Douglas Coupland, who effectively christened generation X with his 1991 novel of the same name, has moved on. Heâs touring to ...
NOW: Toronto, December 24, 2009
...peep culture and the social ramifications of people’s passion for watching and being watched. Really smart. 6. Generation A by Douglas Coupland (Random House) Coupland examines his five characters’ online obsessions in a witty futuristic ...
Sound Money, December 3, 2009
...Douglas Coupland's first novel, "Generation X," got him credit for naming a whole generation. His new novel, "Generation A," comes full circle, taking readers through a world where ...
Globe and Mail, December 1, 2009
...Indeed, the youngest panelist, 24-year-old Edmonton musician Roland Pemberton a.k.a Cadence Weapon, chose the oldest title, Douglas Coupland's Generation X, first published almost 20 years ago (and superseded this fall by Generation A). I'm ...
Globe and Mail, December 1, 2009
...Indeed, the youngest panelist, 24-year-old Edmonton musician Roland Pemberton a.k.a Cadence Weapon, chose the oldest title, Douglas Coupland's Generation X, first published almost 20 years ago (and superseded this fall by Generation A). I'm ...
Book Reporter, November 25, 2009
...Douglas Coupland Books by Douglas Coupland Douglas Coupland Scribner Fiction ISBN: 9781439157015 Its hard to say if is more simplistic, stodgy grumbling or sophisticated social satire. Blaming the Internet and smart-phones ...
Metronews, November 25, 2009
...of an expressive, honest writer whose rich, vivacious voyage proves to be compassionate as it is, itself, corked. Generation A Author: Douglas Coupland Publisher: Random House Canada Price: $32.95 (hardcover) Eighteen years after the ...
Time Out New York, November 25, 2009
... By Douglas Coupland. Scribner, $24. Douglas Coupland’s 1991 Generation X was perhaps the zeitgeist novel of the decade. It encapsulated the world of post-baby-boomers, particularly slackers with uncertain futures and little ...
Toronto Star Online, November 25, 2009
...Munro's Too Much Happiness, which also finished as a runner-up for the GG prize, as well as Douglas Coupland's Generation A, Andrew Steinmetz's Eva's Threepenny Theatre and Susanne de Lotbinière-Harwood's translation of Nicole Brossard's ...
Winnipeg Sun, November 13, 2009
...Author Douglas Coupland is pictured in this undated handout photo. A good portion of Coupland's new book, 'Generation A,' is an attempt to consider how, in a world where almost everyone ...
Toronto Life, October 19, 2009
...visions are more than a tad nightmarish, but often exhilarating. Sept. 29. The cautionary tale, pop culture style Generation A Douglas Coupland Slacker god Douglas Coupland revisits the form and fixations that made him famous 18 years ago ...
Telegraph, September 2, 2009
...Douglas Coupland's new novel Generation A is a backward step from Generation X, finds Stephen Abell Generation A by Douglas Coupland On Douglas Couplands website there is a section called ...
Canada NewsWire, September 1, 2009
...1 /CNW/ - Today Random House Canada proudly announces the availability of three free video clips inspired by Douglas Coupland's new novel, Generation A, exclusively available on the iTunes Store (www.iTunes.ca). Generation A is Douglas ...
Guardian Unlimited, August 28, 2009
...Douglas Coupland might so easily have written his latest novel as an airport thriller, says Toby Litt Ever since his first book, Generation X, Douglas Coupland has done the best epigraphs ...
Culture Critic, August 14, 2009
...Douglas Coupland ? Generation A Returning to the Decameron-esque structure of his pop-culture classic Generation X, Couplands new novel explores the act of storytelling as a way of connecting and grasping ...
National Post, July 17, 2009
...Alice Munro collection (Too Much Happiness). One book sure to get a lot of attention is the new Douglas Coupland, Generation A, and I've yet to see the new Bonnie Burnard (Suddenly). In terms of cool galleys floating around the Post, I've ...
Guardian Unlimited, June 11, 2009
...tenure as Oxford poetry professor, Ruth Padel is also on the bill, along with a rare appearance from Douglas Coupland with his new novel Generation A (a companion novel to the book which made his name, Generation X) and work from the writers ...
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