
By Andrew Tate
Emerging within the final decade of the 20 th century - amidst the absurd contradictions of on the spot worldwide communique and acute poverty - Coupland's novels, brief tales, essays and visible artwork have intervened in particularly modern debates relating to authenticity, artifice and paintings. This ebook explores Coupland's reaction, in ground-breaking novels corresponding to Microserfs, female friend in a Coma and pass over Wyoming, to a couple of the main urgent problems with our times.
Designed for college kids, researchers and basic readers alike, the research is dependent round thematically centred chapters that think of Coupland's engagement with narrative, purchaser tradition, area, faith and ideas of the future.
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