JPod: [a novel]
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Very evil...very funnyA lethal joyride into today's new breed of technogeeks, Douglas Coupland's new novel updates Microserfs for the age of Google.Ethan Jarlewski and five co-workers are bureaucratically marooned in JPod, a no-escape architectural limbo on the fringes of a massive Vancouver video game design company.The six jPodders wage daily battle against the demands of a bone-headed marketing staff, who daily torture employees with idiotic changes to already idiotic games. Meanwhile, Ethan's personal life is shaped (or twisted) by phenomena as disparate as Hollywood, marijuana grow-ops, people-smuggling, ballroom dancing, and the rise of China. JPod's universe is amoral and shameless–and dizzyingly fast-paced. The characters are products of their era even as they're creating it. Everybody in Ethan's life inhabits a moral gray zone. Nobody is exempt, not even his seemingly straitlaced parents or Coupland himself. Full of word games, visual jokes, and sideways jabs, this book throws a sharp, pointed lawn dart into the heart of contemporary life. JPOD is Douglas Coupland at the top of his game.From the Cassette edition.
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Grouped Work ID | c8358c86-23bd-3747-801e-2908095d21ce |
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Grouping Title | jpod |
Grouping Author | douglas coupland |
Grouping Category | book |
Grouping Language | English (eng) |
Last Grouping Update | 2021-01-28 02:28:07AM |
Last Indexed | 2021-01-26 02:51:02AM |
Novelist Primary ISBN | none |
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display_description | Very evil...very funny A lethal joyride into today's new breed of technogeeks, Douglas Coupland's new novel updates Microserfs for the age of Google. Ethan Jarlewski and five co-workers are bureaucratically marooned in JPod, a no-escape architectural limbo on the fringes of a massive Vancouver video game design company. The six jPodders wage daily battle against the demands of a bone-headed marketing staff, who daily torture employees with idiotic changes to already idiotic games. Meanwhile, Ethan's personal life is shaped (or twisted) by phenomena as disparate as Hollywood, marijuana grow-ops, people-smuggling, ballroom dancing, and the rise of China. JPod's universe is amoral and shameless–and dizzyingly fast-paced. The characters are products of their era even as they're creating it. Everybody in Ethan's life inhabits a moral gray zone. Nobody is exempt, not even his seemingly straitlaced parents or Coupland himself. Full of word games, visual jokes, and sideways jabs, this book throws a sharp, pointed lawn dart into the heart of contemporary life. JPOD is Douglas Coupland at the top of his game. From the Cassette edition. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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publishDate | 2006 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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subject_facet | Audiobooks Compact discs Computer games -- Fiction Electronic games industry -- Fiction Humorous stories | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
title_display | JPod | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
title_full | JPod JPod [sound recording] : [a novel] / by Douglas Coupland | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
title_short | JPod | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
title_sub | [a novel] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
topic_facet | Computer games Electronic games industry Fiction Humorous stories Literature | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
upc | 9781415932063 |