Douglas Coupland

JPod: A Novel

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JPod, Douglas Coupland's most acclaimed novel to date, is a lethal joyride into today's new breed of tech worker. Ethan Jarlewski and five co-workers whose surnames begin with “J” are bureaucratically marooned in jPod, a no-escape architectural limbo on the fringes of a massive Vancouver game design company. The jPodders wage daily battle against the demands of a boneheaded marketing staff, who daily torture employees with idiotic changes to already idiotic games. Meanwhile, Ethan's personal life is shaped (or twisted) by phenomena as disparate as Hollywood, marijuana grow-ops, people-smuggling, ballroom dancing, and the rise of China. JPod's universe is amoral, shameless, and dizzyingly fast-paced like our own. Praise for JPod: «JPod is a sleek and necessary device: the finely tuned output of an author whose obsolescence is thankfully years away.”-New York Times Book Review”It's to [Coupland's] credit that in JPod he's still nimble enough to take the post-modern man-too young for Boomer nostalgia and too old for youthful idealism-and drown his sorrows in a willful, joyful satire that revels in the same cultural conventions that it sends up.”-Rocky Mountain News «It's time to admire [Coupland's] virtuoso tone and how he has refined it over 11 novels. The master ironist just might redefine E. M. Forster's famous dictate 'Only connect' for the Google age.”-USA Today «Zeitgeist surfer Douglas Coupland downloads his brain into JPod.”-Vanity Fair
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Година на публикуване
2008
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    🚀Не мога да я затворя
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    Этот больной, безумный мир в текстовой форме. Рекомендую, если вы - гик, работаете с гиками или живете с ними.

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    I deserve whatever life throws at me.
  • Елена Лихановацитирапреди 9 години
    Where is the sleep-crazed, Pepsi-fuelled one-point-oh tech environment that can only be created by having no green vegetables, no sex and no life?

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