by Douglas Coupland · Quinteto · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788497111409
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Ethan Jarlewski and his five co-workers make up the jPOD, a group of video game programmers working in a multinational corporation under absurd guidelines. Unable to rebel, they sacrifice their private lives for the good of the corporation. Contact with characters from the outside world, including Coupland himself and the protagonist's mother, presents an amoral human panorama with a dubious possibility of redemption.
The novel, with a frenetic and ironic prose, introduces the reader to a group of characters who define themselves as depressing compendiums of pop culture, whose lives are controlled by the most banal form of capitalism.
Douglas Coupland is a Canadian visual artist and writer. Trained originally as a sculptor, Coupland found unexpected success as a novelist with the publication of his 1991 international bestseller Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture, which popularized the terms Generation X and McJob. He has since gone on to publish dozens of books, including novels, short story collections, and essay collections. He has also worked as a columnist and contributor for a number of periodicals, including the New York Times, the Financial Times, the Guardian, and Wired Magazine.
