Now available in a new edition with a cover designed by the author,
Douglas Coupland's CBC Massey Lectures is an innovative exploration of
the modern crises of our time.
Five disparate people are trapped inside an airport cocktail lounge
during a global disaster: Karen, a single mother waiting for her online
date; Rick, a down-on-his-luck bartender; Luke, a pastor on the run;
Rachel, a cool Hitchcockian blonde incapable of true human contact; and
finally a mysterious voice known as Player One. Slowly, over the course
of the five-hour story, each reveals the truth about themselves while
the world as they know it comes to an end.
Acclaimed novelist and visual artist Douglas Coupland probes human
identity, society, religion, macroeconomics, and the afterlife in the
inventive 2010 CBC Massey Lectures. Asking as many questions as it
answers, Player One will leave readers with no doubt that we are in a
new phase of existence as a species -- and that there is no turning
back.