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City of Glass: Douglas Coupland's Vancouver by: Douglas Coupland List Price: £9.47 City Travel Guides Price: £8.46 You Save: £1.01 (11%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 971.13304 EAN: 9781550548181 ISBN: 1550548182 Label: Douglas & McIntyre Manufacturer: Douglas & McIntyre Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 152 Publication Date: 2003-05 Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre Studio: Douglas & McIntyre Sales Rank: 107537 Related Items:
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 Rating:  - ode to a citySure, it's only one person's view of Vancouver. But at least it's Douglas Coupland's view. In "City of Glass," the author of "All Families Are Psychotic" and "Generation X" strays from fiction to write about his home city. The result is a subdued love ode to Vancouver, peppered with photographs. Coupland describes Vancouver with many page-long vignettes, sort of like a patchwork quilt: he describes feng shui in Vancouver, Japanese teenagers, a harbour full of sulfur piles, American couples on "love boats," monstrous houses, and the quiet detachment that Vancouver feels from the Rest of Canada. (Which has its own entry -- really!) Coupland's fiction is generally distinguishable for its contemplative, cynically witty ... Read More: Rating:  - written with loveThis book comprises numerous little descriptive portraits of Coupland's home town. I read it before I visited Vancouver and enjoyed it for its good writing and acute observation. I have just read it again, post visit, and enjoyed it the more for being able to identify the subjects. Rating: - City of DougA beautiful book feat. Vancouver as the main character. True to the style of Coupland this book is a fragment of stories and descriptions. Very readable. |
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