Girlfriend in a Coma, (Paperback)

from cmwilson101

Girlfriend in a Coma by Douglas Coupland is about .... well .... a girl in a coma and the life her friends live as they are waiting for her to wake up. The book meanders quite a lot, and a good portion of time is spent describing the group of friends doing very little, yet is a fascinating story ...

from jenpbarr

Sublime and eery apocalyptic tale of gen X'ers... Karen falls into a coma at age 17 in 1979. She wakes 17 years later to find her thirty something friends living hollow, yet efficient lives. She predicts the end of the world which comes, leaving she and her friends as the only remaining humans. A...

from melancholia101

This is definitely a book of two halves. On first reading I thoroughly enjoyed the first half concerning the adolescent love affair struck down in it's infancy by the mysterious coma of Karen and the ensuing effects on those connected to her. The second half following her awakening and the clumsy...

from elissajanine

This is a book that left me uncertain what I even think about it, which I think is a good thing. Yes, it's a novel in two parts--the first a sort of tragic teenage love story and the disintegration of a man who lives his life pretty much parallel to that of his girlfriend in a coma, while their d...

from urbanplanter

The thing I love about Coupland's books is that I I always feel they connect to all of the other things I am reading (yes all the spiritual christian stuff), because the way he writes integrates a lot of it. This book is no different. The premise of the book is there are a group of teenagers bein...