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Work InformationMiss Wyoming by Douglas Coupland (2000)
   No current Talk conversations about this book.   ) AngelaJMaher | Apr 2, 2018 |   ) Heldin | Oct 15, 2017 | ) annadanz | Jul 5, 2015 |  ) zmagic69 | May 6, 2014 | I think what I liked most about this novel is the focus on modern values and lifestyles. It’s a novel where people make their own families and parents aren’t always right, and money and fame are two very powerful, desirable things. In a lot of ways, I think this novel would suit the teenage generation quite well. But what I really connected with, more than anything, was the idea of wanting to remake yourself, to tear down your previous life and persona and start completely fresh. I think it’s a concept everyone can relate to. Maybe it’s something that just resonates strongly with me at this particular point in my life, and if so, that’s fine, but it’s just a feeling that struck home emotionally with me and I found myself very drawn too. Even without that emotional connection I had, I think that just the storyline itself is interesting enough to draw readers in. You’re following the lives of two damaged people, and as the plot jumps back and forth in time, you learn more and more about what drives them forward. It’s definitely character driven, which I appreciate. The balance between character and plot is good. The story isn’t linear, and there’s nothing to really mark where you are in time, which can get a bit confusing, but overall it’s fairly easy to determine where you are a few paragraphs into each chapter. All in all, I’ve since place several orders at my library for many of Coupland’s other books. If the rest of his works are like Miss Wyoming, I think I may have discovered a new favorite author. (  )1  BookishMatters | Oct 27, 2013 |
 Coupland bietet wieder einmal ein teilweise bizarres, satirisches und verzerrtes Bild der amerikanischen Wirklichkeit, das möglicherweise gar nicht allzu verzerrt ist. Dabei verwendet er allerdings auch Bilder, die nicht immer neu, und Handlungszusammenhänge, die oft zu vorhersehbar sind. Dabei ist die Geschichte bei aller Bitterkeit selbst eine Ausgeburt der Traumfabrik. Zum einen, indem Coupland ihre Bewohner und Opfer zeigt, und zum anderen, indem er sich ihrer Genreregeln bedient und zwei füreinander bestimmte Menschen aller scheinbaren Widerstände zum Trotz zueinander führt. Der Reiz des Romans besteht neben der durch die zeitlichen Sprünge erzeugten ungewohnt spannenden Erzählweise vor allem in der Konservierung alltäglicher Verhaltensweisen und der Lebensansichten der Figuren, die neben den Vertretern der Generationen X und Y in ihrer Plastizität und grotesken Liebenswürdigkeit bestehen können.
From the bestselling author of "Generation X" and "Microserfs," comes the absurd and tender story of a hard-living movie producer and a former child beauty pageant contender who only find each other by losing themselves. Waking up in an L.A. hospital, John Johnson is amazed that it was the flu and not an overdose of five different drugs mixed with cognac that nearly killed him. As a producer of high-adrenaline action flicks, he's led a decadent and dangerous life, purchasing his way through every conceivable variant of sex. But each variation seems to take him one notch away from a capacity for love, and while movie-making was once a way for him to create worlds of sensation, it now bores him. After his near-death experience, John decides to walk away from his life. Susan Colgate is an unbankable former tv star and child beauty pageant contender. Forced to marry a heavy metal singer in need of a Green Card after her parents squander her sitcom earnings, she becomes the alpha road rat. But when the band's popularity dwindles, the marriage dissolves. Flying back to Los Angeles in Economy, Susan's plane crashes and only she survives. As she walks away from the disaster virtually unscathed, Susan, too, decides to disappear. John and Susan are two souls searching for love across the bizarre, celebrity-obsessed landscape of LA, and are driven, almost fatefully, toward each other. Hilarious, fast-paced and ultimately heart-wrenching, "Miss Wyoming" is about people who, after throwing off their self-made identities, begin the fearful search for a love that exposes all vulnerabilities. No library descriptions found. |
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