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    Polaroids from the Dead: And Other Short Stories

    By Douglas Coupland

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    Douglas Coupland takes his sparkling literary talent in a new direction with this crackling collection of takes on life and death in North America -- from his sweeping portrait of Grateful Dead culture to the deaths of Kurt Cobain, Marilyn Monroe and the middle class.

    For years, Coupland's razor-sharp insights into what it means to be human in an age of technology have garnered the highest praise from fans and critics alike. At last, Coupland has assembled a wide variety of stories and personal "postcards" about pivotal people and places that have defined our modern lives. Polaroids from the Dead  is a skillful combination of stories, fact and fiction -- keen outtakes on life in the late 20th century, exploring the recent past and a society obsessed with celebrity, crime and death. Princess Diana, Nicole Brown Simpson and Madonna are but some of the people scrutinized.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateJul 19, 2011
    ISBN9780062105943
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    Douglas Coupland

    DOUGLAS COUPLAND is a writer, visual artist and designer. He has published fourteen novels, three collections of short stories, and eight nonfiction books; has written and performed for England’s Royal Shakespeare Company; and is a columnist for the Financial Times and a frequent contributor to the New York Times. In 2015 and 2016 Coupland was artist in residence at the Paris Google Cultural Institute. In May 2018 his exhibition on ecology, Vortex, opened at the Vancouver Aquarium. Coupland is a member of the Royal Canadian Academy, an Officer of the Order of Canada, an Officer of the Order of British Columbia, a Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and a recipient of the Lieutenant Governor's Award for Literary Excellence.

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    • 2/5
      Not my favorite of Coupland's books by any stretch, but Polaroids From The Dead did offer some insightful observations about pop culture and its effects on the way we view life in general. I've always felt that reading Coupland speeds up the pace of your thinking, but diminishes the depth of those same thoughts. While that may seem a rather negative comment to make about a writer, it is totally in keeping with the topics and characters he creates. And with the society he critiques.
    • 2/5
      A rehash of pop culture - lost its edge compared to his first novels