- Paperback: 208 pages
- Publisher: Harper Perennial Canada (Jan 2 2003)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0006392512
- ISBN-13: 978-0006392514
- Product Dimensions: 18.6 x 18.6 x 1.6 cm
- Shipping Weight: 295 g
- Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #410,916 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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A collection of essays by Douglas Coupland, whose first novel Generation X received critical acclaim. In his mid-30s, Coupland writes about what it means to grow up and the realization that he is not young anymore. Essays include observations on parents his age at Grateful Dead concerts who seem intent on preserving a youthful reckless and carefree lifestyle at the expense of their children, to the "gristled leather bachelors" and "straw-permed sex androids from Planet 1971," to mourning his own sense of youthfulness as he revisits old haunts in his native Vancouver.
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From Publishers Weekly
A cult writer for the disaffected (Generation X), Coupland combines manic poetry and scary precision in his dazzling, deft takes on modern life and non-living. Illustrated with 42 b&w photographs, this collection of 24 mini-essays and short fictions (all but three of which ran in Spin, New Republic, etc.) opens with several pieces on a series of Grateful Dead concerts that will mainly interest Deadheads, but it picks up speed as Coupland roams the former East Berlin in 1994; files a bittersweet, sunset-drenched dispatch from the Bahamas; meditates on James Rosenquist's enormous pop painting F-111; visits the nuclear tourist sites of Los Alamos; and spies on yuppies and political consultants in seamy Washington, D.C. In Palo Alto and in his native Vancouver, Coupland celebrates middle-class stability, which he views as a fragile construct that shields us from our animal nature. The "secular nirvana" of Brentwood, Los Angeles, to him seems an inevitable site for the O.J. Simpson/Nicole Brown saga and for Marilyn Monroe's death. Coupland teaches survival of the hippest as the world plunges toward a "new thought-based economy." $100,000 ad/promo; translation rights: HarperCollins.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
FINALLY!,
By Arthur (Lawrence, Kansas) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Polaroids from the Dead (Paperback)
This is the Coupland book I've been waiting for; he's finally begun to fulfill his promise as a writer. Polaroids is experimental AND well crafted, whereas his previous works were either one or the other. This collection of meditations upon contemporary life--the Dead and the people who follow them, OJ, Kurt--are alluring both individually and as a whole. I highly recommend this book.
4.0 out of 5 stars
the circus is over,
By jonstreet@yahoo.com (alabama) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Polaroids from the Dead (Paperback)
With the passing of Jerry Garcia, the boomers last relic has dissappeared and, as such, has sixties culture (finally). Coupland shows in Polaroids from the Dead an intellectual's view of dead shows (along with much more, of course). Yeah dead shows are fun, but are they fun for the kids of the boomers who are dragged along while their parents pine over their lost souls and youth? What is important about this book is that it shows the neo-dead heads who only knew the Vince Welnick dead that they aren't missing anything. The kids would probably be better off at home tinkering on the internet and checking their stocks (like me).
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never read it,
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