Eleanor Rigby: A Novel

by Douglas Coupland

Overview

Eleanor Rigby is the story of Liz, a self-described drab, overweight, crabby, and friendless middle-aged woman, and her unlikely reunion with the charming and strange son she gave up for adoption. His arrival changes everything, and sets in motion a rapid-fire plot with all the twists and turns we expect of Coupland. By turns funny and heartbreaking, Eleanor Rigby is a fast-paced read and a haunting exploration of the ways in which loneliness affects us all.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781596919624
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	12/30/2008
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	256
File size:	635 KB

About the Author

Douglas Coupland is a novelist who also works in visual arts and theater. His novels include Generation X, Microserfs, All Families Are Psychotic, and Hey Nostradaumus!. He lives and works in Vancouver, Canada.
Douglas Coupland was born on a Canadian Armed Forces Base in Baden-Söllingen, Germany, in 1961. He is the author of the novels Miss Wyoming, Generation X, and Girlfriend in a Coma, among others, as well as the nonfiction works Life After God and Polaroids from the Dead. He grew up and lives in Vancouver, Canada.

Editorial Reviews

Coupland…writes a sparkling sentence and a mean epigram.” —Entertainment Weekly

“Coupland has crafted a formidable pop style that hooks up dead-on cultural anthropology with surprising reserves of emotion…What's remarkable is how easy it is for even the best adjusted among us to see ourselves in Coupland's compassionate (and occasionally madcap) portrait.” —Village Voice

“Told with abundant wit and a deceptive simplicity.” —Boston Globe

“Coupland's weirdest and most accomplished work to date…could be one of the first great novels of the new century.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

“Poignant, funny, intrepidly offbeat…[a] clever, inspired, brilliantly strange tale.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)

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