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After making love for the first time, high school senior Karen Ann McNeil confides to her boyfriend Richard of the dark visions she's been recently suffering. It's only a few hours later on that snowy Friday night in 1979 that she descends into a coma. Nine months later she gives birth to a... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Jared Anderson Hansen: Richard's childhood best friend.
- Karen Ann McNeil: The girlfriend who falls into the coma
- Richard Doorland: Karen's boyfriend - main character that the novel follows.
- Hamilton Reese: Add a description of this character.
- Wendy Chernin
- Pamela Sinclair
- Albert Linus
- Megan Karen McNeil: Karen and Richard's child that was born while Karen is in her coma.
- Jane McNeil
Setting & Locations edit
Mainland BC
- North Vancouver
- Stanley Park
- Moon
- Hawaii
- Park Royal
- Rabbit Lane
- Inglewood
- Los Angeles
- Datsun
- Florida
- Lions Gate Hospital
- California
First Sentence edit
I'm Jared, a ghost.
Table of Contents edit
I. Part 1
1. All Ideas Are True
2. Every Idea in the World is Wrong
3. If It Sleeps It's Alive
4. It's All Fake
5. No Sex No Money No Free Will
6. Loneliness is Fun
7. Thinking About the Future Means You Want Something
8. Earthly Sadness
9. Even More Real Than You
10. One Day You Will Speak with Yourself
11. Destiny is Corny
12. The Future is More Extreme Than You Think
13. Reject Every Idea
14. In the Future Everything Will Cost Money
II. Part 2
15. No Imperial Children
16. The Future and the Afterlife are Different Things Altogether
17. Everybody's Lying
18. Extreme Body Failure
19. Dreaming Even Though You're Wide Awake
20. ... And After America?
21. Your Dreams of War Alarm You
22. Nation or Ant Colony?
23. Steel Mink Beef Music
24. The Past is a Bad Idea
25. 2000 is Silly
26. Progress is Over
III. Part 3
27. Fun is Stupid
28. The Future is Fake
29. Infinity is Artificial
30. Everything is Brand-New
31. One Idea Will Win
32. Super Power
33. Your Message Here
34. Stop Breathing
35. 3 2 1 Zero
36. The End
Themes & Symbolism edit
Series & Lists edit
This book is in Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read. (authoritative list)
Authors & Contributors edit
- Douglas Coupland (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers, Inc.
Country: United States of America
Publication Date: 1998
ISBN: 0-06-039178-2
Page Count: 284
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers, Inc.
Country: United States of America
Publication Date: 1998
ISBN: 0-06-039178-2
Page Count: 284
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- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 813.54
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