Player One

Name: Player One
ISBN: 9780434021048

5/5

Five disparate people are trapped in an airport lounge during a global disaster: Karen, waiting for her online date; Rick, a down-on-his-luck bartender; Luke, a pastor on the run; Rachel, a cool blonde; and, finally, a mysterious voice known as Player One.

First published: 2022
Publishers: House of Anansi Press

Player One is a typical Douglas Coupland novel that happened to have an atypical genesis. The Massey Lectures are an annual Canadian event during which a noted scholar gives a week-long series of lectures on a political, cultural or philosophical topic.

Just another terrific read. This is ultimately an exploration on some of the bigger, philosophical questions on life: what is this concept of time?

I'm a die hard Coupland fan but I must admit, this book certainly wasn't my favourite. It wasn't awful but it almost felt like an amalgamation of Girlfriend in a Coma, Life After God and (to a certain extent) Eleanor Rigby and to me that feels a little...

About Douglas Coupland

Douglas Coupland is Canadian, born on a Canadian Air Force base near Baden-Baden, Germany, on December 30, 1961. In 1965 his family moved to Vancouver, Canada, where he continues to live and work. Coupland has studied art and design in Vancouver, Canada, Milan, Italy and Sapporo, Japan. His first novel, Generation X, was published in March of 1991. Since then he has published nine novels and several non-fiction books in 35 languages and most countries on earth. He has written and performed for the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford, England, and in 2001 resumed his practice as a visual artist, with exhibitions in spaces in North America, Europe and Asia. 2006 marks the premiere of the feature film Everything's Gone Green, his first story written specifically for the screen and not adapted from any previous work. A TV series (13 one-hour episodes) based on his novel, jPod premieres on the CBC in January, 2008. --------------------------------------Retrieved 07:55, May 15, 2008, from http://www.coupland.com/coupland_bio.......

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