Girlfriend in a Coma
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780006385424 (0006385427)
Publish date: February 11th 1998
Publisher: HarperCollins
Pages no: 240
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Novels,
Science Fiction,
Literature,
Cultural,
Literary Fiction,
Contemporary,
Modern,
Dystopia,
Apocalyptic,
Post Apocalyptic,
Canada
Pretentious-as-fuck 20y/o sj LOVED this book, but 30something year old sj is afraid she'd want to smack younger her's face right off her face if she re-read it.I really don't even remember what I loved about it, but I think Coupland is better left to my youth.
Weird, very weird. My first Douglas Coupland.Karen and her small group of friends - still missing their friend Jared who died of leukemia. Karen is frightened of her dreams, a feeling that she has seen something that she shouldn't have. After losing her virginity to her boyfriend Richard (on the ...
"Girlfriend in a coma, I know, I know. It's really serious."Liked this much better than Generation X. 17-year-old Karen goes into a 17-year-coma after having sex with her boyfriend. Talk about ways to scare you into not having sex. Well, she didn't go to sleep immediately afterwards, but she was rea...
I loved the first half of this book. I thought it was a really well-written piece saying a lot about loss, grief, and loneliness and the impact of tragedy on others. But then the book just went weird, the "apocalypse" was just plain silly and the philosophy underlying it all was too simplistic for w...
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