Player One: What Is to Become of Us (CBC Massey Lectures)

of Douglas Coupland (Goodreads Author)

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International bestselling author Douglas Coupland delivers a real-time, five-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.In the tradition of Kurt Vonnegut and J. G. Ballard, Coupland explores the modern crises of time, human identity, society, religion, and the afterlife. 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.

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Book Details

Format Paperback
Pages 256 pages
Publisher House of Anansi Press
Publication Date October 1st 2010
First Publication 09/25/10
Language English
ISBN 9780887849688
Edition Not informed
Category Fiction
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