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Player One by Douglas Coupland
Player One by Douglas Coupland










Player One by Douglas Coupland

The author's mouthpieces are a single mother who's flown half a continent for an internet date, an on-the-run pastor who's stolen his congregation's money, a beautiful but ice-cool blonde incapable of human emotion and the alcoholic loser of a barman who serves them.

Player One by Douglas Coupland Player One by Douglas Coupland

The setting is a tacky airport hotel cocktail bar where a disparate group are marooned when the world oil price goes stratospheric and life as we know it ends. It's a familiar Douglas Coupland set-up: take a handful of characters, place them in an apocalyptic situation and let them talk about life, death and the meaning of the universe, especially their religion and what constitutes human identity.












Player One by Douglas Coupland