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JPod / a novel by Douglas Coupland.
Van Pelt Library PS3553.O855 J68 2006
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Coupland, Douglas.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Video games industry--Fiction.
- Video games industry.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 448 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First U.S. edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Bloomsbury : Distributed to the trade by Holtzbrinck Publishers, 2006.
- 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.
- ISBN:
- 1596911042
- OCLC:
- 62282728
- Publisher Number:
- 9781596911048
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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