{"product_id":"jpod-paperback-by-douglas-coupland","title":"JPod Paperback by Douglas Coupland","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n                            \n                                \n                                    \u003ch2\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eProduct Details\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n                                    \u003cul\u003e\n                                        \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cb\u003eVintage Canada\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e(2007-01-02)\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                                        \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eLanguage\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003eEnglish\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                                        \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e528\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003epages\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                                        \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eISBN-13\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e9780679314257\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                                        \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eItem Weight\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e567.0\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003egrams\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                                        \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e9.0 x 5.98 x 1.42\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003ecm\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                                    \u003c\/ul\u003e\n                                    \u003cbr\u003e\n                                    \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA lethal joyride into today’s new breed of technogeeks, Coupland’s \u003ci\u003eJPod \u003c\/i\u003eupdates \u003ci\u003eMicroserfs \u003c\/i\u003efor the age of Google.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Ethan Jarlewski and five co-workers whose  names start with J are bureaucratically marooned in jPod, a no-escape architectural  limbo on the fringes of a massive Vancouver game design company.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The six workers  daily confront the forces that define our era: global piracy, boneheaded marketing  staff, people smuggling, the rise of China, marijuana grow-ops, Jeff Probst and  the ashes of the 1990s financial tech dream. jPod’s universe is amoral and shameless.  The characters are products of their era even as they’re creating it. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Everybody  in Ethan’s life inhabits a moral grey zone. Nobody is exempt, not even his seemingly  straitlaced parents or Coupland himself, as readers will see.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Full of word games,  visual jokes and sideways jabs, this book throws a sharp, pointed lawn dart into  the heart of contemporary life. \u003ci\u003eJPod \u003c\/i\u003eis Douglas Coupland at the top of his game.\u003c\/p\u003e\n                                    \u003ch3\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n                                    \u003cp\u003eDOUGLAS COUPLAND is a Canadian writer, visual artist, and designer. His first novel is the 1991 international bestseller \u003ci\u003eGeneration X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture\u003c\/i\u003e, still celebrated for its biting humour and cultural relevancy thirty years since initial publication. He has published fourteen novels, two collections of short stories, and eight nonfiction books. He has written and performed for England's Royal Shakespeare Company, is a columnist for \u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e of London, and a frequent contributor to \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e. In 2000 Coupland amplified his visual art production and has recently had two separate museum retrospectives, \u003ci\u003eEverywhere Is Anywhere Is Anything Is Everything\u003c\/i\u003e at the Vancouver Art Gallery, The Royal Ontario Museum, and the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, and \u003ci\u003eBit Rot\u003c\/i\u003e at Rotterdam's Kunstinstituut Melly and Munich's Villa Stücke. In 2015 and 2016 Coupland was artist in residence in the Paris Google Cultural Institute. In May 2018, his exhibition on ecology, \u003ci\u003eVortex\u003c\/i\u003e, opened at the Vancouver Aquarium. Coupland is a member of the Royal Canadian Academy, an Officer of the Order of Canada, an Officer of the Order of British Columbia, a Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, and a recipient of the Lieutenant Governor's Award for Literary Excellence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n                                \n                            \n                            \u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Best Bookstore","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":45444221796513,"sku":"BBSNIJ9780679314257","price":23.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0525\/2084\/5473\/files\/9780679314257.jpg?v=1764209941","url":"https:\/\/www.bestbookstore.ca\/products\/jpod-paperback-by-douglas-coupland","provider":"Best Book Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}