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Title	:	Girlfriend in a Coma
Author	:	Douglas Coupland
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 288 pages
Published	:	March 1st 1999 by ReganBooks (first published January 1st 1998)
Categories	:	Fiction. Cultural. Canada. Contemporary. Science Fiction

Girlfriend in a Coma Paperback | Pages: 288 pages

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'What did Karen see that December night? What pictures of tomorrow could so disturb her that she would flee into a refuge of bottomless sleep? Why would she leave me?'

It's 15 December, 1979, and Richard's girlfriend Karen has entered a deep coma. She only took a couple of valium washed down with a cocktail, but now she's locked away in suspended animation, oblivious to the passage of time. What if she were to wake up decades later - a 17-year-old girl in a distant future, a future where the world has gone dark?

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Original Title:	Girlfriend in a Coma
ISBN:	0060987324 (ISBN13: 9780060987329)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	Vancouver, British Columbia(Canada)

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This book started out with an intriguing premise: what would happen if a teenage girl fell into a coma, and then her boyfriend found out she was pregnant? If she was vegetative but steady, how would she affect the lives of her high school friends? It's well written, and everything's going along pretty well until BAM (spoiler) it turns into an apocalyptic "The Stand" type book right out of the blue. It might have been better had I known what to expect. That's a completely different kind of

Not what I expected. A morality lesson. Blechhh.

This short novel was based on the usual dystopian world picture: everyone is dead and at least until the few good survivors can get their act together and "go back to the land" they scavenge. The differences were that it starts with the pregnant girlfriend of a teenage boy, both part of a very sociable crowd of kids, falling into a coma. 17 years later she awakens (with a 16 year old daughter!) and her friends have all grown up but not necessarily as their best selves and everyone else in the

Here we go again.... what can I say? Other than I fear that this book was a complete and utter waste of my precious time.Ok... the beginning was reasonable, but the ending... [oh Lord!]...the ending was not only extremely disapponting.... it also seemed to drag somewhat. I am sure that there are many for whom this book is wonderful yet, for one, I cannot understand those plaudits nor the acclaim with which Douglas Coupland is held. The story [Was there a story there at all? Really? Honestly?]...

I would like the three hours I spent reading this back.

Douglas Coupland has the ability to always write about the same thing, yet always end up with something different. As a writer, he is able to talk about life by coming at it sideways through larger-than-life characters in insane situations.Coupland sets much of the story during the end of the world, but it's not about the end of the world so much as it's about the characters. His impressive voice allows you to immerse yourself and get to know each of the characters. They are all round, three

Not what I expected. A morality lesson. Blechhh.