false 10008 16 Liz Dunn isn't morbid, she's just a lonely woman with a very pragmatic outlook on life. Overweight, underemployed, and living in a nondescript condo with nothing but chocolate pudding in the fridge, she has pretty much given up on anything interesting ever happening to her. Everything changes when she gets an unexpected phone call from a Vancouver hospital and a stranger takes on a very intimate place in her life. From here the plot of Douglas Coupland's <I>Eleanor Rigby</I> skyrockets into a very bizarre world, rife with reverse sing-alongs and apocalyptic visions of frantic farmers. The style and plot paths are very identifiably Coupland--slightly mystical, off-kilter, and very, very smart. Ultimately a novel about the burden of loneliness, <I>Eleanor Rigby</I> takes its characters through strange and sometimes nearly unimaginable predicaments. <p> Fans of Douglas Coupland's later novels, particularly <I>Hey Nostradamus!</I> and <I>Miss Wyoming</I>, are bound to like <I>Eleanor Rigby</I>. Like many of his novels, the journey is strange and unexpected but you come out at the other end with a snapshot of a sardonic and bizarre but ever-so-slightly hopeful place. <I>--Victoria Griffith</I> 2780244 2004 Eleanor Rigby total:1776|5:264|4:647|3:644|2:183|1:37| 1776 6246 2410 146 4 10 false false Sat Apr 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 07 03:39:32 -0700 2009 Sat Apr 25 00:22:10 -0700 2009
“What if God exists but he doesn’t really like people very much?”

It’s 2am. I’m willing back an emotional outburst. It manifests itself in the usual way—lump in the throat, shaky hands. Damn. I hate this and then again…. Do you ever feel like the Tin Man? It�...more...]]> 2 2 false false Mon Jan 26 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Dec 14 18:44:22 -0800 2008 Mon Jan 26 17:08:15 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Tue Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Thu Aug 30 13:15:13 -0700 2007 Thu Aug 30 13:24:47 -0700 2007 The story begins in the summer of 1997...more...]]> 4 1 false false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sat Jul 14 07:04:05 -0700 2007 Mon Jul 30 12:30:46 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 1 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Mon Jun 04 21:26:55 -0700 2007 Mon Jun 04 21:27:17 -0700 2007 more...]]> 2 1 false false Sat Apr 11 13:37:37 -0700 2009 Sat Apr 11 13:39:27 -0700 2009 2 1 false false Sat Mar 29 19:33:42 -0700 2008 Sat Apr 12 13:39:04 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 1 false false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Sun Jul 22 09:15:01 -0700 2007 Sat Jan 05 15:17:06 -0800 2008 more...]]> 1 1 false false Wed Apr 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 02 13:17:13 -0800 2009 Wed Apr 15 11:26:49 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 5 false false Sat May 02 07:23:05 -0700 2009 Mon May 11 06:26:23 -0700 2009 Lonely people want to be dead, yet we’re still not quite ready to go—we don’t want to miss the action; we want to see who wins next year’s Academy Awards.

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“Death without the possibility of changing the world is the same as a life that never was.”

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