Hey Nostradamus! - Douglas Coupland

In a Columbine-style massacre at her high school, Vancouver teenager Cheryl Anway loses her life. Ten years later, her boyfriend ? actually, secret husband ? Jason Klaasen still struggles to come to terms with her shooting. Twelve years later, Heather struggles to make sense of her relationship with Jason. And thirteen years later, Reg Klaasen finally speaks of the way his faith has twisted life and the damage he has done, especially to his son. And them's the bare bones of Douglas Coupland's latest novel. Hey Nostramus! is a novel of these four voices in turn. Firstly, ...  Read the complete review

Douglas Coupland is a hip writer. If you want to be hip, you have to read Douglas Coupland. At least, that's what I was told, and who am I to ignore all those nice people who say such nice things about Mr Coupland on the backs of his books? I know that hip isn't a word we use these days, but hip is the kind of word that you might find this author using, albeit in a modern, ironic way. I'm not particularly fashionable, but I do enjoy some of Douglas Coupland's work. Not all of it, mind! This is the fifth of his books I have read and I think I was equally split in my opinion of his writing until now. I?m caught between loving two and, well, not ...  Read the complete review