![]() Oh, and there's a sniper outside, shooting at anyone who tries to exit.Īs always with Coupland, the ideas come thick and fast, they're quirky, often funny and frequently profound, and yet. The author's mouthpieces are a single mother who's flown half a continent for an internet date, an on-the-run pastor who's stolen his congregation's money, a beautiful but ice-cool blonde incapable of human emotion and the alcoholic loser of a barman who serves them. The setting is a tacky airport hotel cocktail bar where a disparate group are marooned when the world oil price goes stratospheric and life as we know it ends. ![]() ![]() ![]() It's a familiar Douglas Coupland set-up: take a handful of characters, place them in an apocalyptic situation and let them talk about life, death and the meaning of the universe, especially their religion and what constitutes human identity. ![]()
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