JPod by Douglas Coupland
Ethan Jarlewski and five co-workers whose surnames end in 'J' are bureaucratically marooned in JPod. JPod is a no-escape architectural limbo on the fringes of a massive Vancouver game design company.
The six workers daily confront the forces that define our era: global piracy, boneheaded marketing staff, people smuggling, the rise of China, marijuana grow-ops, Jeff Probst, and the ashes of the 1990s financial tech dream.
JPod's universe is amoral and shameless. The characters are products of their era even as they're creating it. Everybody in Ethan's life inhabits a moral grey zone. Nobody is exempt, not even his seemingly strait-laced parents or Coupland himself.
Full of word games, visual jokes and sideways jabs, this book throws a sharp, pointed lawn dart into the heart of contemporary life.
Format: Paperback | 464 pages
Dimensions (cm): 23 x 15.2 x 3.3 | 686g
Publication Date: 08 Jun 2006
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication City/Country: London, United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN10: 074758222X
ISBN13: 9780747582229
Condition: Good
A book that has been read but is in good condition. Some minor damage to the cover including minor scuff marks and creasing, but no holes or tears. The majority of pages are undamaged with very minimal creasing but no tearing. No pencil underlining of text, no highlighting of text, no writing in margins. No missing pages.