by Douglas Coupland · Harper Collins Promotion · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780007881536
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«Girlfriend in a Coma» is Douglas Coupland's dystopian novel, published by Harper Collins Promotion in paperback in English.
On 15 December 1979, Karen, Richard's girlfriend, falls into a deep coma after taking some valium with a cocktail. Decades later she wakes up aged seventeen and discovers the world has turned dark. The novel explores what she saw that night, why she fled into sleep, and what future awaits her after returning.
The novel's first edition dates from 1998; this paperback edition was published in 2010 by Harper Collins Promotion.
For readers of Douglas Coupland and contemporary fiction, as well as those interested in post-apocalyptic dystopias with a literary background.
Douglas Coupland is a Canadian visual artist and writer. Trained originally as a sculptor, Coupland found unexpected success as a novelist with the publication of his 1991 international bestseller Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture, which popularized the terms Generation X and McJob. He has since gone on to publish dozens of books, including novels, short story collections, and essay collections. He has also worked as a columnist and contributor for a number of periodicals, including the New York Times, the Financial Times, the Guardian, and Wired Magazine.
