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JPod

Douglas Coupland

Publisher: Bloomsbury USA

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Summary

JPod, Douglas Coupland's most acclaimed novel to date, is a lethal joyride into today's new breed of tech worker.  
 
Ethan Jarlewski and five co-workers whose surnames begin with "J" are bureaucratically marooned in jPod, a no-escape architectural limbo on the fringes of a massive Vancouver game design company. The jPodders wage daily battle against the demands of a boneheaded 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, shameless, and dizzyingly fast-paced like our own.
Available since: 12/10/2009.
Print length: 464 pages.

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