Book description
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, Coupland
explores the modern crises of time, human identity, society, religion
and the afterlife. The book asks as many questions as it answers and
readers will leave the story with no doubt that we are in a new phase
of existence as a species - and that there is no turning back.
DOUGLAS COUPLAND is the author of the international bestseller JPOD
and twelve other novels including the era-defining GENERATION X and,
most recently, GENERATION A. His books have been translated into
thirty-five languages. He is also a visual artist and sculptor,
furniture designer and screenwriter. He lives and works in Vancouver.
