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- JPod
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| # | Date | Publisher | Binding | Cover |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2006-05-16 | Bloomsbury USA |  |
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- Blurb:
- Very evil....very funny A lethal joyride into today"s new breed of technogeeks, Douglas Coupland"s new novel updates Microserfs for the age of Google. Ethan Jarlewski and five co-workers are bureaucratically marooned in JPod, a no-escape architectural limbo on the fringes of a massive Vancouver video game design company. The six JPodders wage daily battle against the demands of a boneheaded marketing staff, who daily torture employees with idiotic changes to already idiotic games. Meanwhile, Ethan"s personal life is shaped (or twisted) by phenomena as disparate as Hollywood, marijuana grow-ops, people-smuggling, ballroom dancing, and the rise of China. JPod"s universe is amoral and shameless - and dizzyingly fast-paced. The characters are products of their era even as they"re creating it. Everybody in Ethan"s life inhabits a moral grey zone. Nobody is exempt, not even his seemingly straitlaced parents or Coupland himself. Full of word games, visual jokes, and sideways jabs, this book throws a sharp, pointed lawn dart into the heart of contemporary life. JPod is Douglas Coupland at the top of his game.