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Player One: What Is to Become of Us: A Novel in Five Hours
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Player One: What Is to Become of Us: A Novel in Five Hours Paperback - 2010

by Douglas Coupland

Set in an airport cocktail lounge during five hours of a global disaster, Coupland's latest work asks readers: At what point do humans stop being human and become something else?


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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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  • Title Player One: What Is to Become of Us: A Novel in Five Hours
  • Author Douglas Coupland
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 1st
  • Pages 246
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher House of Anansi Press, Toronto
  • Date 2010-10
  • Features Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780887849688 / 0887849687
  • Weight 0.62 lbs (0.28 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.88 x 5.02 x 0.65 in (20.02 x 12.75 x 1.65 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Disasters, Bars (Drinking establishments)
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2010283316
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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Citations

  • Booklist, 10/01/2010, Page 31
  • Library Journal, 10/15/2010, Page 63
  • New York Times Book Review, 12/12/2010, Page 24
  • Publishers Weekly, 12/20/2010, Page 0
  • Quill & Quire, 12/01/2010, Page 32
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