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Player One : What Is to Become of Us: A Novel in Five Hours
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Coupland, Douglas.
- Series:
- CBC Massey Lecture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bars (Drinking establishments).
- Disasters.
- Bars (Drinking establishments)--Fiction.
- Disasters--Fiction.
- Local Subjects:
- Bars (Drinking establishments).
- Disasters.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (257 p.)
- Other Title:
- Player One
- Place of Publication:
- New York : House of Anansi Press, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- International bestselling author Douglas Coupland delivers a real-time, five-hour story set in an airport cocktail lounge during a global disaster. Five disparate people are trapped inside: Karen, a single mother waiting for her online date; Rick, the down-on-his-luck airport lounge bartender; Luke, a pastor on the run; Rachel, a cool Hitchcock blonde incapable of true human contact; and finally a mysterious voice known as Player One. Slowly, each reveals the truth about themselves while the world as they know it comes to an end.In the tradition of Kurt Vonnegut and J. G. Ballard, Cou
- Contents:
- Contents; Hour One Cue the Flaming Zeppelin; Hour Two The Best of the Rest of Your Life; Hour Three God's Little Dumpsters; Hour Four Hello, My Name Is: Monster; Hour Five The View from Inside Daffy Duck's Hole; Future Legend
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- ISBN:
- 1-283-26158-8
- 9786613261588
- 0-88784-280-1
- OCLC:
- 710999917
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