Polaroids from the Dead
Polaroids from the Dead

Author: Douglas Coupland

Publisher: HarperPerennial Canada

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 198

ISBN-13: 9780006392514

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Douglas Coupland takes his sparkling literary talent in a new direction with this crackling collection of takes on life and death in North America -- from his sweeping portrait of Grateful Dead culture to the deaths of Kurt Cobain, Marilyn Monroe and the middle class. For years, Coupland's razor-sharp insights into what it means to be human in an age of technology have garnered the highest praise from fans and critics alike.At last, Coupland has assembled a wide variety of stories and personal "postcards" about pivotal people and places that have defined our modern lives.Polaroids from the Dead is a skillful combination of stories, fact and fiction -- keen outtakes on life in the late 20th century, exploring the recent past and a society obsessed with celebrity, crime and death.Princess Diana, Nicole Brown Simpson and Madonna are but some of the people scrutinized.

Polaroids from the Dead
Polaroids from the Dead

Author: Douglas Coupland

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 2011-07-19

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 0062105949

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Douglas Coupland takes his sparkling literary talent in a new direction with this crackling collection of takes on life and death in North America -- from his sweeping portrait of Grateful Dead culture to the deaths of Kurt Cobain, Marilyn Monroe and the middle class. For years, Coupland's razor-sharp insights into what it means to be human in an age of technology have garnered the highest praise from fans and critics alike. At last, Coupland has assembled a wide variety of stories and personal "postcards" about pivotal people and places that have defined our modern lives. Polaroids from the Dead is a skillful combination of stories, fact and fiction -- keen outtakes on life in the late 20th century, exploring the recent past and a society obsessed with celebrity, crime and death. Princess Diana, Nicole Brown Simpson and Madonna are but some of the people scrutinized.

William Wegman Polaroids
William Wegman Polaroids

Author: William Wegman

Publisher:

Published: 2002-10-08

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13:

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Gathers the best of the photographer's creative and often whimsical canine portraits as taken with a 20 x 24-inch Polaroid camera, in a treasury accompanied by an essay on his experiences with the camera and with his models.

Life After God
Life After God

Author: Douglas Coupland

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2012-12-25

Total Pages: 215

ISBN-13: 147110558X

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YOU ARE THE FIRST GENERATION RAISED WITHOUT RELIGION What happens if we are raised without religion or beliefs? As we grow older, the beauty and disenchantments of the world temper our souls. We all have spiritual impulses, yet where do these impulses flow in a world of commodities and consumerism? LIFE AFTER GOD is a compellingly innovative collection of stories responding to these themes. Douglas Coupland takes us into worlds we know exist but rarely see, finding rare grace amid our pre-millennium turmoil.

Living with the Dead
Living with the Dead

Author: Rock Scully

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 412

ISBN-13: 0815411634

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This memoir chronicles the Dead's seminal years: 1965-1985.

Garish
Garish

Author: Robert Jones

Publisher:

Published: 2012-08-31

Total Pages: 96

ISBN-13: 9780983737605

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"[This book] is a photography collection unlike any other you've seen. With his choices of an unconventional titles and vivid palettes, Robert Jones accompanies readers on a spirited journey through North America's sparsely populated outlands. His deeply personal album of glowing snapshots documents scores of unknown sign painters, billboard designers, and creators of garden statuary, whose brilliance lends visual poignancy to thousands of miles of yearly travel on lost highways. In eighty photographs, Jones celebrates such diverse influences on his work as painter Salvador Dali, photographer Walker Evans, and movie directoer David Lynch."--p. [2] of cover.

Polaroids from the Dead
Polaroids from the Dead

Author: Douglas Coupland

Publisher: Harper Perennial

Published: 1997-09-20

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 9780060987213

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Douglas Coupland takes his sparkling literary talent in a new direction with this crackling collection of takes on life and death in North America -- from his sweeping portrait of Grateful Dead culture to the deaths of Kurt Cobain, Marilyn Monroe and the middle class. For years, Coupland's razor-sharp insights into what it means to be human in an age of technology have garnered the highest praise from fans and critics alike. At last, Coupland has assembled a wide variety of stories and personal "postcards" about pivotal people and places that have defined our modern lives. Polaroids from the Dead is a skillful combination of stories, fact and fiction -- keen outtakes on life in the late 20th century, exploring the recent past and a society obsessed with celebrity, crime and death. Princess Diana, Nicole Brown Simpson and Madonna are but some of the people scrutinized.

Girlfriend in a Coma
Girlfriend in a Coma

Author: Douglas Coupland

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 2011-06-14

Total Pages: 330

ISBN-13: 0062105957

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On a snowy Friday night in 1979, just hours after making love for the first time, Richard's girlfriend, high school senior Karen Ann McNeil, falls into a coma. Nine months later she gives birth to their daughter, Megan. As Karen sleeps through the next seventeen years, Richard and their circle of friends reside in an emotional purgatory, passing through a variety of careers—modeling, film special effects, medicine, demolition—before finally reuniting on a conspiracy-driven super-natural television series. But real life grows as surreal as their TV show as Richard and his friends await Karen's reawakening . . . and the subsequent apocalypse.

Microserfs
Microserfs

Author: Douglas Coupland

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 2011-06-21

Total Pages: 404

ISBN-13: 0062105965

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From the era-defining author of Generation X comes a novel of overworked coders who escape the serfdom of Bill Gates to forge their own path. They are Microserfs—six code-crunching computer whizzes who spend upward of sixteen hours a day “coding” and eating “flat” foods (food which, like Kraft singles, can be passed underneath closed doors) as they fearfully scan company e-mail to learn whether the great Bill is going to “flame” one of them. But now there’s a chance to become innovators instead of cogs in the gargantuan Microsoft machine. The intrepid Microserfs are striking out on their own—living together in a shared digital flophouse as they desperately try to cultivate well-rounded lives and find love amid the dislocated, subhuman whir and buzz of their computer-driven world.