Coupland, Douglas Eleanor Rigby ISBN 13: 9781582346434

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Liz Dunn has little to keep her going until a strange young man named Jeremy arrives in her life, upsetting her quiet routine and triggering events that take Liz around the world, into danger, and maybe, for the first time, in reach of happiness. Reprint.

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"This book is funny and strange, but it's also moving and bittersweet... the story's ending proves unexpected yet exactly what you'd hoped: 'Even the most random threads of life always knit together in the end, ' Coupland writes, and indeed they do. Eleanor Rigby is the most impressive novel he has written in years. It might prove to be among the best fiction of this new year as well."
--"Los Angeles Times
"Coupland's ear for the vernacular is solid, and his prose is lean and stripped, making for a fast read.... Coupland moves his story quickly, handling narrative flashbacks with assurance, and gives his plot several screwball twists."
--"San Francisco Chronicle
"Essentially the story of how a middle-aged spinster finally comes of age, throws off her isolation, and begins living her life, it is told with abundant wit and a deceptive simplicity, courtesy of a sardonic office drone named not Eleanor Rigby (the title is borrowed from a Beatles song about loneliness) but Liz Dunn.... 'Eleanor Rigby' is earnest and warm-hearted, a pleasant landscape dotted with small deposits of profundity. Even as her struggles grow from small and solitary to almost absurdly oversize, Liz's voice remains wonderfully, wittily human."
--"Boston Globe
"Part of the joy in reading a Coupland book is the wonderful and unexpected way in which the details are meted out and skillfully woven together for the finale. All the same lively with that was apparent in All Families Are Psychotic" and Hey Nostradamus! is evident here, and Coupland's talent for capturing the mundane and sparking recognition among his readers -- especially Canucks -- is here too."
--"The Guelph Mercury, Kitchener-Waterloo Record, Brantford Expositor
"But intricate plot twists aren't the driving force of a Coupland novel. The true force is embodied here by the most weak-bodied of the book's characters. Jeremy, through his drug-fuelled visions, offers original ideas about the Earth and how we're looking after it.... [Coupland's characters] all still struggling with the big themes of life on Earth; love loneliness, death and how to make sense of the world."
--"Victoria Times Colonist
"What makes him hit us again and again, as though he were pelting meteorites from on high, is his ability to connect with ordinary human emotions and to make them profound."
--"ELLE Canada
"Coupland has a canny take on everything, and his oneliners zing because they invoke people you know...you'll be right there with Liz as she discovers that, with a little push, any of us can find our proper place in the solar system."
--"People
"There's a brief moment in Douglas Coupland's latest novel when he draws the reader's attention to some peonies, cool and white and beautiful, placed in a room. They're a fitting flower for a Coupland novel; his latest could rest next to the vase, equally cool and well-arranged."
--"Quill & Quire
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"Tempered with Coupland's wry wit and acute observations, it adds up to an irresistible read."
--"Maclean's
"Coupland has become a master of suspense and pacing. Hey Nostradamus! is a cannily crafted page-turner. . . . an excellent, skilfully written story."
--"NOW (Toronto)
"A leapsideways from the acid irony which has shaded some of Coupland's earlier novels. Instead, from the pen of one of the coolest authors on the planet has come a work of suffusing humanity."
--"Sunday Herald (UK)
"Tough, accomplished and subtle, it addresses all the big issues -- God, suffering, miracles, family life, why bad things happen to good people -- without ever becoming grandiose or pretentious."
--"Independent (UK)

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About the Author:
Douglas Coupland is a novelist who also works in visual arts and theater. His novels include Generation X, Microserfs, All Families Are Psychotic, and Hey Nostradaumus!. He lives and works in Vancouver, Canada.

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  • PublisherBloomsbury Pub Plc USA
  • Publication date2006
  • ISBN 10 1582346437
  • ISBN 13 9781582346434
  • BindingPaperback
  • Number of pages249
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