Eleanor Rigby - Hardcover

Coupland, Douglas

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1582345236 ISBN 13: 9781582345239

Publisher: Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA, 2004

Synopsis

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. 60,000 first printing.

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Review:

‘A high spirited moving study of loneliness and all its opposites.’ Observer Books of the Year.

‘A powerful and moving examination of a life lived negotiating loneliness.’ Independent

‘“Eleanor Rigby” is one of Coupland’s subtlest indictments yet of Yankee-yuppie culture.’ Daily Telegraph

‘Bristles with acerbic observations of modern life.’ Sunday Telegraph

‘Funny, unexpected and fragile, here [Coupland is] the chronicler of our potentials rather than our losses.’ Guardian

'Douglas Coupland has surely reserved his place at the top table of North American fiction.' Independent on Sunday

'Nothing less than sublime' Time Out

'Far too wise to offer answers, but affirms that seeking them is a necessary part of our humanity.' Independent

'Coupland's last four novels are so good and so distinctive that they seem to me to mark a genuine seismic shift in the literary landscape.' Nicholas Blincoe, New Statesman

'Coupland has passion and pace, intelligence and wit. If you find anything about the way we live now disturbing and wrong, he is your man.' Daily Telegraph

'Coupland at his best can make a single phrase say more than many another writer's whole novel.' LRB

About the Author:

Douglas Coupland was born on a Canadian Armed Forces Base in Baden-Sollingen, Germany, in 1961. He is the author of the novels Hey Nostradamus!, All Families Are Psychotic, Miss Wyoming, Girlfriend in a Coma, and Generation X, among others, as well as the nonfiction works City of Glass and Polaroids from the Dead. He grew up and lives in Vancouver, Canada.

About this edition

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1582345236
• ISBN 13: 9781582345239
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 249