JPod

JPod, Douglas Couplands most acclaimed novel to date, is a lethal joyride into todays new breed of tech worker. Ethan Jarlewski and five co-workers whose surnames begin with J are bureaucratically marooned in jPod, a no-escape architectural limbo on the fringes of a massive Vancouver game design company. The jPodders wage daily battle against the demands of a boneheaded marketing staff, who daily torture employees with idiotic changes to already idiotic games. Meanwhile, Ethans personal life is shaped (or twisted) by phenomena as disparate as Hollywood, marijuana grow-ops, people-smuggling, ballroom dancing, and the rise of China. JPods universe is amoral, shameless, and dizzyingly fast-paced like our own. Praise for JPod: JPod is a sleek and necessary device: the finely tuned output of an author whose obsolescence is thankfully years away.-New York Times Book ReviewIts to Couplands credit that in JPod hes still nimble enough to take the post-modern man-too young for Boomer nostalgia and too old for youthful idealism-and drown his sorrows in a willful, joyful satire that revels in the same cultural conventions that it sends up.-Rocky Mountain News Its time to admire Couplands virtuoso tone and how he has refined it over 11 novels. The master ironist just might redefine E. M. Forsters famous dictate Only connect for the Google age.-USA Today Zeitgeist surfer Douglas Coupland downloads his brain into JPod.-Vanity Fair