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This book is the first full-length study of Douglas Coupland, one of the twenty-first century's most innovative and influential novelists. The study explores the prolific first decade and a half of Coupland's career, from Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture (1991) to JPod (2006), a period in which he published ten novels and four significant volumes of non-fiction. Emerging in the last decade of the twentieth century - amidst the absurd contradictions of instantaneous global communication and acute poverty - Coupland's novels, short stories, essays and visual art have intervened in

Coupland, Douglas --- Coupland, Doug --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Literature --- Literature: History & Criticism --- LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General --- Literature: history & criticism --- Accelerated Culture. --- Douglas Coupland. --- Generation X. --- JPod. --- Microserfs. --- Miss Wyoming. --- artifice. --- authenticity. --- global communication. --- poverty.