Player One

Resumen del libro

International bestselling author Douglas Coupland delivers a real-time, five-hour story set in an airport cocktail lounge during a global disaster. Five disparate people are trapped inside: Karen, a single mother waiting for her online date; Rick, the down-on-his-luck airport lounge bartender; Luke, a pastor on the run; Rachel, a cool Hitchcock blonde incapable of true human contact; and finally a mysterious voice known as Player One. Slowly, each reveals the truth about themselves while the world as they know it comes to an end. In the tradition of Kurt Vonnegut and J. G. Ballard, Coupland explores the modern crises of time, human identity, society, religion, and the afterlife. The book asks as many questions as it answers, and readers will leave the story with no doubt that we are in a new phase of existence as a species and that there is no turning back. William Heinemann fought off bids from seven other UK publishers to acquire rights. Douglas Coupland's novels have sold over half a million copies in the UK alone.

Biografía del autor

Douglas Coupland, canadiense nacido en Alemania en 1961, es escritor, artista visual y diseñador. Con su primera novela, "Generación X", dio nombre a una época, un sentimiento y una comunidad, y sigue siendo una de las obras cruciales de nuestra época. Le siguieron "Planeta Champú", "La vida después de Dios", "Microsiervos", "JPod" o "Generación A", novelas en las que brillan el sentido del humor y una capacidad poco habitual para la creación de personajes. "Atracón" es su primera novela en diez años, y su reencuentro con los lectores en español, que se completará con la reedición de "Microsiervos" y de "Generación X", próximamente en Alianza Editorial.