Player One: What Is to Become of Us

Coupland, Douglas

| 2010

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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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Liza Bolin

2012-08-10

Betyg

Väldigt couplandsk, påminner starkt om generation A.

Magnus Bergström

2012-07-10

Betyg

Tankeväckande, men långt ifrån författarens bästa. Åtminstone av de jag läst hittills. Gillar storyn och karaktärerna, men deras samspel och utveckling genom berättelsen blir lite väl forcerat.

Henrik R.

2011-10-31

Betyg

Som vanligt har Coupland roliga (eller intressanta) ideér, fast jag tycker persongalleriet i denna är mycket svagare än vanligt.