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Player One : What Is to Become of Us : a Novel in Five Hours by Douglas Coupland [Coupland, Douglas] is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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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.From Publishers WeeklyIn Coupland's real-time near-apocalyptic novel, a recovering alcoholic, a divorcée, a church-fund embezzler, a beautiful android-like woman, and a man who is distinguished by his prickly demeanor converge in an airport cocktail lounge at the precise moment when oil prices begin to rise and society begins to

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Author

Douglas Coupland [Coupland, Douglas]

Publisher

House of Anansi Press ; Distributed in the U.S. by Publishers Group West

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9780887849688

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction, Thriller

Rating

3.49 / 5 (3,977 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14