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020 $a1596911042
024 3 $a9781596911048
035 $a(OCoLC)OCM62282728
035 $a(NNC)5640234
035 $a5640234
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050 00 $aPS3553.O855$bJ68 2006
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100 1 $aCoupland, Douglas.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n90696473
245 10 $aJPod /$ca novel by Douglas Coupland.
250 $a1st U.S. ed.
260 $aNew York :$bBloomsbury :$bDistributed to the trade by Holtzbrinck Publishers,$c2006.
300 $a448 pages :$billustrations ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
520 1 $a"Ethan Jarlewski and five co-workers are bureaucratically marooned in JPod, a no-escape architectural limbo on the fringes of a massive Vancouver video game design company. The six JPodders wage daily battle against the demands of a boneheaded marketing staff, who daily torture employees with idiotic changes to already idiotic games. Meanwhile, Ethan's personal life is shaped (or twisted) by phenomena as disparate as Hollywood, marijuana grow-ops, people-smuggling, ballroom dancing, and the rise of China." "JPod's universe is amoral and shameless - and dizzyingly fast-paced. The characters are products of their era even as they're creating it. Everybody in Ethan's life inhabits a moral grey zone. Nobody is exempt, not even his seemingly straitlaced parents or Coupland himself. Full of word games, visual jokes, and sideways jabs, this book throws a sharp, pointed lawn dart into the heart of contemporary life."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aElectronic games industry$vFiction.
856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0626/2005057010-b.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0626/2005057010-d.html
852 00 $bglx$hPS3553.O855$iJ68 2006