- Teenage pregnancy, High school students, Teenagers, Crimes against
In 1988, an episode of teenage violence transforms a suburban community, as parents try to cope with the discovery of their children's underground world and the survivors deal with their painful memories of what happened.
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- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- warmbleak
- cooloverwhelming
- sparerichly built
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- Author
- Douglas Coupland
- First published
- 2003
- Pages
- 295
- Publisher
- Au diable Vauvert, Random House Canada, Flamingo
- Editions
- 10
- Language
- French, English
- ISBN
- 9780007162512
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“I believe that what separates humanity from everything else in this world - spaghetti, binder paper, deep-sea creatures, edelweiss and Mount McKinley - is that humanity alone has the capacity at any given moment to commit all possible sins.”
Douglas Coupland is a Canadian novelist. His fiction is complemented by recognized works in design and visual art arising from his early formal training. His first novel, the 1991 international bestseller *Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture*, popularized terms such as McJob and Generation X. He has published thirteen novels, a collection of short stories, seven non-fiction books, and a number of dramatic works and screenplays for film and television. A specific feature of Coupland's novels is their synthesis of postmodern religion, Web 2.0 technology, human sexuality, and pop culture. Coupland currently lives in Vancouver, British Columbia with his partner David Weir. He publishe
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