Generation A

[An] intoxicating cocktail of literary influences . . . Coupland [is] a joy to read . . . A globally ambitious novel, and all the better for it

The Guardian

Coupland is a smart, witty writer...The short stories in the second half, like those in Generation X, are a delight.

London Lite

A thoughtful book, abuzz with information-age gadgets and connectivity, and housing a sturdy scientific conspiracy. It also manages to be stylistically light but intellectually provocative

Ben Jeffery, Times Literary Supplement

Coupland writes superlative pop fiction.

Metro

'[a] page turner...a series of profound, and mystifying, stories within a stoy that will confound and delight...Another confirmed bestseller

News of the World

Fans of Coupland will rejoice . . . Coupland's audacious flights of fancy, his laugh-out-loud dialogue and his magnificent ability to bring it all back to storytelling and orange-flavour tang, they're all here . . . Such a treat

Independent on Sunday

[A] visionary author . . . rock'n'roll yet deadly serious, a caustic social commentator and delineator of the near future . . . He's caught midway between technophilia and technophobia . . . there's no better place to be for a contemporary prophet

The Sunday Times

Generation A hints at an idealism, a generation that could be at the beginning of something, although it may be too passive and self-involved to realise it . . . Beneath the typically brilliant, sharp wisecracks and riffs about fashion products, relationships and lifestyle, there is tangible outrage at the violation of Nature . . . Moving and meaningful

The Times

A thoughtful book, abuzz with information-age gadgets and connectivity, and housing a sturdy scientific conspiracy. It also manages to be stylistically light but intellectually provocative

Times Literary Supplement

A paean to good old-fashioned storytelling, of which the novel itself is an inventive and unexpectedly moving example

Daily Mail

A shrewd observer of modernity . . . His latest novel is a quirky glance into the near future . . . an earnest plea for authentic communication in an evermore isolated world . . . Coupland touches on an ambitious array of topics . . . enlivened by observations about the banalities of popular culture

The Observer

With this exceptional sequel to Generation X, Douglas Coupland may be one of the smartest, wittiest writers around . . . He is a terrifically good writer . . . Generation A is set in the near future . . . Bees have become extinct, but then five people are stung . . . It is the attempt to get to the bottom of this mystery that brings the five together on an Alaskan island where they are made to tell stories to one another. Coupland weaves common elements across these tales and into the main narrative: large themes . . . comic themes . . . existential themes . . . There is a compelling plot . . . Coupland scatters his smartly satirical observations throughout . . . This is a clever, brilliant book - and it's loads better than Generation X . . . funny and profound . . . Straight A . . . (Coupland) deserves top marks for his latest novel

Esquire

Coupland is a master at creating eccentric, lonely characters and illuminating the mundaneness of dull lives in our celebrity-obsessed, technology-driven world . . . Ideas bounce of his writing like sparks off a live electrical wire

The Scotsman

[A] tour-de-force myth of the near future . . . As ever, the writing is sharp and witty, displaying Coupland's keen eye for cultural trends and an awareness of the ever-expanding limits of technological advancement

Q

Highly recommended. Like Murakami in thriller-trope mode. Go for it

William Gibson, author of Virtual Light

Ambitious and weird . . . genuinely experimental

Scotland on Sunday

Unusual circumstances ensue in this latest read from the brilliant social commentator

Elle

Coupland is a smart, witty writer . . . A delight

London Lite

Coupland juggles some fascinating ideas . . . Equal parts humor and revelation...An intelligent look at pop and digital culture

Publishers Weekly

He is a brilliant social commentator and a wit of our times

Times Literary Supplement

Eighteen years on from Generation X, Coupland still satirises pop culture better than anyone. This globe-spanning tale, set in the near future, is masterfully told and often hilarious

GQ

He's still funny [and] writes great social commentary

www.theBookbag.co.uk

From the very first pages it jumps out: the language, the preoccupations, the political and technological references, the humour - they're all so now . . . Scintillating . . . I must admit I read the novel enviously. Oh, to have written something so clever, funny, heartfelt and original . . . The narration is layered, there are passages that are very funny, others that are wise, and throughout the language crackles with vitality . . . In the future, if people are curious about what it was like to live in our times, in the early 21st century, they will do well to read Douglas Coupland

Yann Martell

Superbly entertaining stuff. Coupland's dialogue is witty and spiky and makes you laugh out loud . . . Coupland just can't resist making his characters as smart as he is, which is very smart indeed. He's one of the few writers who has really grasped what different times we live in . . . But Coupland's personality as a writer isn't just smart, it is also charming humane and fundamentally optimistic. A pure pleasure

Independent on Sunday

A delightful Decameron of a book . . . rich, educative and even consoling

Independent

One of the most popular serious writers of our time

Aravind Adiga, Financial Times