Ebook {Epub PDF} Hey Nostradamus! by Douglas Coupland

I have been a devout reader of Douglas Coupland's work and have been disappointed with basically everything since Microserfs. Hey Nostradamus! has changed all of that. Hey! is a critical look into modern fanatacism and the consequences of being a teenager in a world filled with guns, God, and video bltadwin.ru novel is divided into four parts each narrated by a different character.5/5(5). Hey Nostradamus! is a very odd book. It's among Coupland's most serious efforts, yet his intent is not entirely clear. Certainly there is no attempt at psychological insight into the killers' motives, and the most developed relationships--those between Jason and Cheryl, and Jason and Reg--seem to have little to do with each other/5().  · Hey Nostradamus! is Coupland's first novel to feature a full complement of three-dimensional characters rather than a swarm of exaggerated bltadwin.ruted Reading Time: 5 mins.

Douglas Coupland OC OBC (born ) is a Canadian novelist, designer, and visual bltadwin.ru first novel, the international bestseller Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture, popularized the terms Generation X and bltadwin.ru has published thirteen novels, two collections of short stories, seven non-fiction books, and a number of dramatic works and screenplays for film and television. Hey Nostradamus! Douglas Coupland. Random House of Canada, Limited, - Fiction - pages. 24 Reviews. GOD IS NOWHERE GOD IS NOW HERE. GOD IS NOWHERE GOD IS NOW HERE. Using the voices of four characters deeply affected by a high-school shooting, though in remarkably different ways, Douglas Coupland explores the lingering aftermath of one. " ― Douglas Coupland, quote from Hey Nostradamus! "Here's what I think: the five most unattractive traits in people are cheapness, clinginess, neediness, unwillingness to change and jealousy. Jealousy is the worst, and by far the hardest to conceal.".

Hey Nostradamus! is Coupland's first novel to feature a full complement of three-dimensional characters rather than a swarm of exaggerated cartoons. Hey Nostradamus! is a novel by Douglas Coupland centred on a fictional school shooting in suburban Vancouver, British Columbia and its aftermath. This is Coupland's most critically acclaimed novel. It was first published by Random House of Canada in “ [I]n Hey Nostradamus!, Coupland has fashioned his most serious and mature novel so far, mixing his youthful, exuberant prose with a certain compassion and restraint we haven’t seen from him before. The leading literary voice of the most cynical generation lets it all out in a blaze of spirituality, terror, high comedy and soul-searching, and does it all in a way that is caring and clever, heart-breaking and hilarious, tough and tender.