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Douglas Coupland takes his sparkling literary talent in a new direction with this crackling collection of takes on life and death in North America — from his sweeping portrait of Grateful Dead culture to the deaths of Kurt Cobain, Marilyn Monroe and the middle class.
For years, Coupland's razor-sharp insights into what it means to be human in an age of technology have garnered the highest praise from fans and critics alike. At last, Coupland has assembled a wide variety of stories and personal "postcards" about pivotal people and places that have defined our modern lives. Polaroids from the Dead is a skillful combination of stories, fact and fiction — keen outtakes on life in the late 20th century, exploring the recent past and a society obsessed with celebrity, crime and death. Princess Diana, Nicole Brown Simpson and Madonna are but some of the people scrutinized.
Douglas Coupland takes his sparkling literary talent in a new direction with this crackling collection of takes on life and death in North America — from his sweeping portrait of Grateful Dead culture to the deaths of Kurt Cobain, Marilyn Monroe and the middle class.
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Ronald Adkins
reviewed Polaroids from the Dead on October 18, 2011
Polaroids from the Dead
A collection of short stories and essays that analyses 90s culture in North America from the perspective of somebody living through it.
Douglas Coupland is right up there as one of my favourite authors and this was my first experience of his short writings; a selection of themed pieces told in such a way that even the fiction felt like reality.
Dissecting the evolution of the generation he had previously inadvertently christened Generation X and the way we choose to connect with others whilst remaining disconnected, he uses found photographs to enhance the message at the collections core. To use a quote from Downton Abbey, "things are changing."
As always Coupland writes well but my attention wavered from piece to piece and as a whole it failed to sustain my enjoyment.
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