Screen LibraryBinge : 60 stories to make your brain feel different /
"The first new work of fiction since 2013, from one of Canada's most successful, idiosyncratic and world-defining writers, Douglas Coupland. He's called it Binge because it's impossible to read just one. Imagine feeling 100% alive every moment of every moment of the day! Maybe th...
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Vintage Canada,
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| Publisher Address: | Toronto : |
| Publication Dates: |
2023. ©2021 |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | Vintage Canada edition. |
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"The first new work of fiction since 2013, from one of Canada's most successful, idiosyncratic and world-defining writers, Douglas Coupland. He's called it Binge because it's impossible to read just one. Imagine feeling 100% alive every moment of every moment of the day! Maybe that's how animals live. Or trees, even. I sometimes stare at the plastic bag tree visible from my apartment window and marvel that both it and I are equally alive and that there's no sliding scale of life. You're either alive, or you're not. Or you're dead or you're not. Thirty years after Douglas Coupland broke the fiction mould and defined a generation with Generation X: Tales for an Accelarated Culture, he is back with Binge, 61 stories laced with his observational profundity about the way we live and his existential worry about how we should be living: the very things that have made him such an influential and bestselling writer. Not to mention that he can also be really funny. Here the narrators vary from story to story as Doug catches what he calls "the voice of the people," inspired by the way people write about themselves and their experiences in online forums. The characters, of course, are Doug's own: crackpots, cranks and sweetie-pies. People in the grip of unconscionable urges; lonely people; dying people; silly people. If you love Doug's fiction, this collection is like rain on the desert."-- |
| Item Description: |
Previously published: Toronto: Random House Canada, 2021. Short stories. |
| Carrier Form: | 251 pages ; 21 cm |
| ISBN: |
9781039000544 1039000541 |
| CLC: | I711.45 |
| Call Number: | I711.45/C857-1 |
| Contents: | Alexa -- Radiation -- Splenda -- Rhnull -- Thong -- Theme park -- Airplane mode -- Lube -- Incel -- Team building -- Vegan -- Gum -- Unleaded -- Lego -- Resting bitch face -- Lurking account -- Hip hotels -- 23andMe -- Sharpies -- Romcom -- Subway -- Hyundai -- Southwest Airlines -- Tinder -- NSFL -- Gender reveal party -- Dad-dancing -- Laptop -- Karen -- Taco Bell -- Kirkland products -- Search history -- Clickbait -- 18+ -- SPF 90 -- Lotto -- Gaga -- Liz Claiborne sheets -- IKEA ball pit -- Bic lighter -- Dasani -- Oxy -- Effexor -- Rubbermaid tubs -- CCTV -- Fentanyl -- Adderall -- Risk aversion -- Hoarding -- Craigslist.org -- Clip art -- Nike -- iPhone -- Lan -- Olive Garden -- Dipping sauce -- Using -- Starbursts -- DUI -- Norovirus. |