NATIONAL BESTSELLER The first new work of fiction since 2013 from one of Canada's most
successful idiosyncratic and world-defining writers Douglas Coupland. He's called it Binge
because it's impossible to read just one. Imagine feeling 100% alive every moment of every
minute of the day! Maybe that's how animals live. Or trees even. I sometimes stare at the
plastic bag tree visible from my apartment window and marvel that both it and I are equally
alive and that there's no sliding scale of life. You're either alive or you're not. Or you're
dead or you're not. Thirty years after Douglas Coupland broke the fiction mould and defined a
generation with Generation X he is back with Binge 60 stories laced with his observational
profundity about the way we live and his existential worry about how we should be living: the
very things that have made him such an influential and bestselling writer. Not to mention that
he can also be really funny. Here the narrators vary from story to story as Doug catches what
he calls the voice of the people inspired by the way we write about ourselves and our
experiences in online forums. The characters of course are Doug's own: crackpots cranks and
sweetie-pies dad dancers and perpetrators of carbecues. People in the grip of unconscionable
urges lonely people dying people silly people. If you love Doug's fiction this collection
is like rain on the desert.
