Life After God
We are the first generation raised without God. We are creatures with strong religious impulses, yet they have nowhere to flow in this world of malls and TV, Kraft dinners and jets. How do we cope with loneliness? Anxiety? The collapse of relationships? How do we reach the quiet, safe layer of...
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We are the first generation raised without God. We are creatures with strong religious impulses, yet they have nowhere to flow in this world of malls and TV, Kraft dinners and jets. How do we cope with loneliness? Anxiety? The collapse of relationships? How do we reach the quiet, safe layer of our lives? In this compellingly innovative collection of stories, bestselling author Douglas Coupland responds to these themes. Cutting through the hype of modern living to find a rare grace amid our lives, he uncovers a new kind of truth for a culture stuck on fast-forward. A culture seemingly beyond God.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780671874346 (0671874349)
Publish date: May 11th 2010
Publisher: Simon & Schuster / Pocket Books
Pages no: 361
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
Literature,
Cultural,
Literary Fiction,
20th Century,
Adult,
Religion,
Philosophy,
Contemporary,
Short Stories,
Canada
A wonderful book. It's probably in my top 50 books of all time. The stories here are moving and sad in a quiet way.
This book meandered, and I think Coupland was attempting to tackle some big issues here, but it just didn't work for me. The section describing the nuclear meltdown scenarios was overlong, and in the end the book just didn't gel. It also felt too much like a memoir to call it a novel, but I guess th...
Should have been named My Ennui.
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