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Description
In his 2010 CBC Massey Lectures acclaimed novelist and visual artist Douglas Coupland explores the modern crises of time, human identity, society, religion and macroeconomics and the afterlife in the form of a novel, a 5-hour story set in an airport cocktail lounge during a global disaster.
Five disparate people are trapped inside: Karen, a single mother waiting for her online date; Rick, the down-on-his-luck airport lounge bartender; Luke, a pastor on the run; Rachel, a cool Hitchcock blonde incapable of true human contact; and finally a mysterious voice known as Player One. Slowly, each reveals the truth about themselves while the world as they know it comes to an end.
The book asks as many questions as it answers, and readers will leave the story with no doubt that we are in a new phase of existence as a species -- and that there is no turning back.
Awards
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Editorial Reviews
As Player One haunts the pages of this book, the ideas and inferences you read will haunt your mind every time you indulge in a modern day convenience, such as filling a vehicle up with gas, making this book a worthy read.
— The Silo
...there is an odd tenderness to this novel, and it has to do with recapturing the sense of life as a story in a world of information overload and non-linear narratives.
— The Guardian
...an ease with the language of modernity that contemporary Great North American Novelists should envy... his Eeyorish pessimism, left-field humour and admirable ability to enunciate all of our halfformed thoughts raise this from a sterile dissertation on why modern life is rubbish into the realms of really great fiction.
— Independent
Douglas Coupland takes readers on a captivating ride...
— Winnipeg Free Press
As always with Coupland, the ideas come thick and fast, they're quirky, often funny and frequently profound...
— Daily Mail
packed full of ideas and always a joy to follow...
— Big Issue Scotland
The way Coupland moulds his fiction from the throwaway debris of North American popular culture is quite brilliant...
— The Guardian
...this is a superior read for those who want the latest thoughts from a nimble, complex author who thinks about this kind of stuff all the time.
— The Tampa Tribune
