Ebook {Epub PDF} Hey Nostradamus! by Douglas Coupland

Hey Nostradamus! is a very odd book. It's among Coupland's most serious efforts, yet his intent is not entirely clear. Certainly there is no attempt at psychological insight into the killers' motives, and the most developed relationships--those between Jason and Cheryl, and Jason and Reg--seem to have little to do with each other/5().  · “ [I]n Hey Nostradamus!, Coupland has fashioned his most serious and mature novel so far, mixing his youthful, exuberant prose with a certain compassion and restraint we haven’t seen from him before. The leading literary voice of the most cynical generation lets it all out in a blaze of spirituality, terror, high comedy and soul-searching, and does it all in a way that is caring and clever, ISBN Hey Nostradamus is an instance of entirely unredeemed original sin, an example of writing because one can write with nothing much to write about. Perhaps that’s /5.

" ― Douglas Coupland, quote from Hey Nostradamus! "Here's what I think: the five most unattractive traits in people are cheapness, clinginess, neediness, unwillingness to change and jealousy. Jealousy is the worst, and by far the hardest to conceal.". There are thousands of suburbs as average as us. Honey, I don't care what else you do, but the moment he hints that he wants it, you give it to him. Doesn't matter if you're fixing a diaper or cleaning out the gutters. You give it, pronto. Hey Nostradamus! is a novel by Douglas Coupland centred on a fictional school shooting in suburban Vancouver, British Columbia and its aftermath. This is Coupland's most critically acclaimed novel. It was first published by Random House of Canada in The novel comprises four first-person narratives, each from the perspective of a character directly or indirectly affected by the shooting.

Hey Nostradamus! is a novel by Douglas Coupland centred on a fictional school shooting in suburban Vancouver, British Columbia and its aftermath. This is Coupland's most critically acclaimed novel. It was first published by Random House of Canada in Hey Nostradamus! is Coupland's first novel to feature a full complement of three-dimensional characters rather than a swarm of exaggerated cartoons. Hey Nostradamus! is a very odd book. It's among Coupland's most serious efforts, yet his intent is not entirely clear. Certainly there is no attempt at psychological insight into the killers' motives, and the most developed relationships--those between Jason and Cheryl, and Jason and Reg--seem to have little to do with each other.