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Player One

The new CBC Massey Lectures are being delivered in 2010 by acclaimed novelist and visual artist Douglas Coupland. Coupland's 2010 Massey Lecture is a real-time, five-hour story set in an airport cocktail lounge during a global disaster. Five disparate people are trapped inside. Slowly, each reveals the truth about themselves while the world as they know it comes to an end. 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.

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  • "The new CBC Massey Lectures are being delivered in 2010 by acclaimed novelist and visual artist Douglas Coupland. Coupland's 2010 Massey Lecture is a real-time, five-hour story set in an airport cocktail lounge during a global disaster. Five disparate people are trapped inside. Slowly, each reveals the truth about themselves while the world as they know it comes to an end. 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."@en
  • "Wanneer de wereld een enorme crisis doormaakt, geven vijf mensen die opgesloten zijn in een lounge op een vliegveld hun visie daarop."
  • "In his 2010 CBC Massey Lectures acclaimed novelist and visual artist Douglas Coupland explores the modern crises of time, human identity, society, religion and macroeconomics and the afterlife in the form of a novel, a 5-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. 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."@en
  • "This is 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 o and that there is no turning back."
  • "Story of five people caught inside an airport cocktail lounge during a global disaster."@en
  • "A real-time five-hour story set in an airport cocktail lounge during a global disaster. Five disparate people are trapped inside. Slowly, each reveals the truth about themselves while the world as they know it comes to an end. Coupland explores the modern crises of time, human identity, society, religion and the afterlife."
  • "Five people are trapped inside an airport cocktail lounge as the world as they know it comes to an end, and they begin to reveal the truth about themselves to the others, including Rick, the lounge bartender; Karen, a single mother waiting for her online date; Luke, a pastor on the run; Rachel, a blonde who is incapable of true human contact; and a mysterious voice known as Player One."@en
  • "Karen hat sich von ihrem Mann getrennt und wartet nun in der Flughafenbar auf ihr Blinddate. Ex-Alkoholiker Rick ist der Barkeeper und nicht gerade vom Glück verfolgt, doch er hat einen Plan: Mit seinem ersparten Geld möchte er zu einem Motivationstrainer gehen. Luke, ein Pfarrer, hat die Kirche hinter sich gelassen, nicht ohne die Spendenkasse mitzunehmen. Jetzt trinkt er Whiskey und denkt über seine Zukunft nach. Rachel, jung und emotionslos, möchte beweisen, dass sie sich ändern kann. Sie beschliesst, einen Mann zu finden, der sie schwängert. Doch dann kommt alles anders. Ein Heckenschütze erschiesst Karens Blinddate, eine Giftgaswolke breitet sich aus. Ausnahmezustand - und die Bar scheint der einzige Zufluchtsort zu sein ... Douglas Coupland, geboren 1961 auf einem NATO-Stützpunkt in Deutschland, wuchs in Vancouver auf, wo er auch heute als Autor und Künstler lebt. In den späten Achtzigern begann er für lokale Magazine zu schreiben, daraus resultierte 1991 sein Erstlingswerk "Generation X", das ihn schlagartig berühmt machte und zum Sprachrohr einer ganzen Generation werden liess."

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  • "Romans (teksten)"
  • "Electronic resource"
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  • "Fiction"
  • "Roman canadien de langue anglaise"
  • "Erzählende Literatur: Gegenwartsliteratur ab 1945"
  • "Online-Publikation"
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  • "Player one : what is to become of us"
  • "Player one : what is to become of us"@en
  • "PlayerOne : what is to become of us : a novel in five hours"
  • "Spieler Eins : Roman in 5 Stunden"
  • "Player One What Is to Become of Us"
  • "Player One what is to become of us : a novel in five hours"
  • "Player One : what is to become of us; a novel in five hours"
  • "Le ultime 5 ore : romanzo"
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  • "Spieler Eins Roman in 5 Stunden What Is to Become of Us"
  • "Player one : what is to become of us; a novel in five hours"
  • "Player one : what is to become of us : a novel in five hours"@en
  • "Player one : what is to become of us : a novel in five hours"
  • "Player One : what is to become of us"
  • "Spieler Eins Roman in 5 Stunden"
  • "Joueur 1 : ce qu'il adviendra de nous : roman"
  • "Player One : what is to become of us : a novel in five hours"@en
  • "Player One : what is to become of us : a novel in five hours"
  • "Player one what is to become of us : a novel in five hours"@en
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  • "Joueur_1 : ce qu'il adviendra de nous : roman"
  • "Joueur 1 roman"

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