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Girlfriend in a Coma - Douglas Coupland

 

Description: ISBN 0006551270 / Author: Douglas Coupland / Genre: Fiction

Newest Review: ... seventeen to thirty five, from an adolescence pierced almost fatally by his girlfriend's extraordinary half-life to an ... more

 ... adulthood full of evading responsibility for his existence in the real world. He's a peculiar character; no-one who so utterly relinquishes responsibility for his own reality can possibly be fully three-dimensional. But there's a sweetness at his core, a congenital feeling of guilt that makes him a person who at least recognises his own evasion of humanity. A step in the right direction, at least. He's a shuffling perennial addict (love, alcohol, wonderment - all possible addictions), and so falls in neatly with his polar op...more

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Crowned Review Girlfriend in a Coma - Douglas Coupland: It's A Wonderful Life (989 words)
by ruth_cole - written on 05/11/05 (Very useful, 788 readings)
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Girlfriend In A Coma has almost exactly the same character as its protagonists - human, blowing hot and cold, involving but somehow not that likable. That's not to say it's not a rather good book. But it's entirely possible to leave it not knowing whether to congratulate or slap the main characters. The book begins with two tragic incidents. It's 1979. Jared, a 16-year-old sex-mad footballer (in the Canadian sense), recounts dying of leukaemia. Karen loses her virginity on a snow-carpeted mountaintop, and within an hour collapses, falling into an inexplicable coma. The two events are connected only by Richard, Karen's boyfriend and Jared's oldest ...

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Crowned Review Millennial Angst (833 words)
by Salz - written on 29/10/02 (Very useful, 286 readings)
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What do you do after the end of the world? What if you lived on, you and a few friends guided by the ghost of your earliest friend who had died years before in High School? Girlfriend in a Coma is a book that asks these kind of questions. Serious almost unimaginable questions. Its biggest question is this: What do you do if your girlfriend and the mother of your miraculous child goes into a coma for twenty years? This is the question Richard has been trying to answer or at least understand since Karen fell into a coma at a high school party the evening after they made love for the very first time. This is not Richard and his set of Vancouver friends ...

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Crowned Review Girlfriend in a Coma - Douglas Coupland: Scared to fall asleep (1477 words)
by TigerTiger - written on 25/05/01 (Very useful, 249 readings)
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Imagine if one day you woke up thinking that you had just been having a long deep sleep and instead you discovered that in fact you had been in a coma for the best part of twenty years, you had gone from being 17 to 35 overnight? Imagine that you stared around and all these people were starring back and you knew they were your friends and family, however, almost overnight they had aged twenty years? Imagine that there was a girl of 17 starring back at you and you had never seen her before in your life, but she looked like you and you got the feeling that she was more than just a stranger. You discover that in fact it is your daughter. Most ...

 

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