{"product_id":"hey-nostradamus-by-douglas-coupland","title":"'Hey Nostradamus!' by Douglas Coupland","description":"\u003ch4 data-start=\"41\" data-end=\"472\"\u003eA sharp, strange Coupland novel about aftermath of a school shooting.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"41\" data-end=\"472\"\u003eThe book moves through multiple voices, circling one violent moment and the lives warped around it — faith, guilt, love, performance, blame, and the shitty human habit of trying to make catastrophe mean something.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"474\" data-end=\"1016\"\u003eThis is Coupland in his more serious register, but still with that clipped, bright, late-capitalist weirdness he does so well: pop culture, suburbia, religion, youth, media noise, emotional numbness, all pressed together until they start giving off smoke. Not as playful as \u003cem data-start=\"748\" data-end=\"760\"\u003eMicroserfs\u003c\/em\u003e or \u003cem data-start=\"764\" data-end=\"778\"\u003eGeneration X\u003c\/em\u003e, more bleak and searching. A good one for readers interested in post-Columbine fiction, belief after violence, and the spiritual poverty of modern life. Very early-2000s in the best and worst ways: clean surfaces, psychic rot underneath.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1018\" data-end=\"1288\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback. Harper Perennial, 2004 edition. First published in the UK by Flamingo in 2003. Includes “P.S. Insights, interviews and more” material. Light visible handling\/marks to cover, but looks readable and structurally fine from photos.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45651512885331,"sku":null,"price":12.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/thebowerbooker_22.png?v=1780923186","url":"https:\/\/bowerbooks.com\/products\/hey-nostradamus-by-douglas-coupland","provider":"bower books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}