NATIONAL BESTSELLER
The first new work of fiction since 2013 from one of Canada's most
successful, idiosyncratic and world-defining writers, Douglas Coupland.
He's called it Binge because it's impossible to read just one.
Imagine feeling 100% alive every moment of every minute of the day!
Maybe that's how animals live. Or trees, even. I sometimes stare at the
plastic bag tree visible from my apartment window and marvel that both
it and I are equally alive and that there's no sliding scale of life.
You're either alive, or you're not. Or you're dead or you're not.
Thirty years after Douglas Coupland broke the fiction mould and defined
a generation with Generation X, he is back with Binge, 60 stories
laced with his observational profundity about the way we live and his
existential worry about how we should be living: the very things that
have made him such an influential and bestselling writer. Not to mention
that he can also be really funny.
Here the narrators vary from story to story as Doug catches what he
calls "the voice of the people," inspired by the way we write about
ourselves and our experiences in online forums. The characters, of
course, are Doug's own: crackpots, cranks and sweetie-pies, dad dancers
and perpetrators of carbecues. People in the grip of unconscionable
urges; lonely people; dying people; silly people. If you love Doug's
fiction, this collection is like rain on the desert.
