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	Girlfriend In A Coma - Douglas Coupland (1999) - RUTHLESS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Girlfriend In A Coma - Douglas Coupland (1999) - RUTHLESS
		Promptly thereafter, a pregnant Karen slips into a drug coma for two decades only to emerge to a despondent world where her high school friends are failing miserably to form cohesive identities or assert themselves into the world.
		Following her awakening and reuniting with the daughter she never met, Karen is given the premonition of a severely prosaic apocalypse, and we are treated to an unlikely and highly metaphoric end of the world, one replete with philosophical musings about questions of identity and human meaning in the coming millennium.
	www.ruthlessreviews.com /site_backup/girlfriendinacoma.html (291 words)

	Girlfriend in a Coma (novel) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Girlfriend in a Coma is a novel by Canadian writer and artist Douglas Coupland.
		The book was named after the 1987 single "Girlfriend in a Coma" by The Smiths.
		Girlfriend in a Coma has something of the quality of a fairytale, but it contains a sharp realism that makes the book scarily contemporary" (15 May 1999).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Girlfriend_in_a_Coma_(book) (431 words)

	Girlfriend in a Coma - Douglas Coupland
		Girlfriend in a Coma is primarily the story of Karen McNeil (the girlfriend mentioned in the title) and Richard Doorland (the boyfriend of the girlfriend mentioned in the title), two high school seniors living in late-seventies Vancouver.
		To complicate things, shortly after Karen enters her coma she is discovered to be pregnant, and almost exactly nine months after falling into her unbroken sleep, she gives birth to a daughter, whom Richard names Megan.
		Girlfriend in a Coma contains some elements in common with Vonnegut's novel Galapagos, including the main narrator being a ghost and the end of the world being used as a plot device.
	www.unb.ca /web/bruns/9900/issue12/entertainment/book1.html (573 words)

	Coupland twists Stephen King in 'Girlfriend in a Coma'
		The first half of " Girlfriend in a Coma" is not unusual to these characteristics, the second half, however, becomes too bizarre and too preachy.
		The coma is briefly interrupted for the birth of her daughter, Megan, nine months after it began.
		Karen's coma, the survival of her friends and the death of everyone else on Earth relate to the need for man to question.
	members.tripod.com /coupland/gc21.html (477 words)

	Jason Pettus \| essays \| douglas coupland's "girlfriend in a coma"
		The beginning of the second half sees Karen come out of her coma as mysteriously and painlessly as she entered it, and this is the point where the story starts veering wildly from the typical Coupland novel.
		Girlfriend in a Coma is in many respects Coupland's "first novel," and we all know what a volatile experience a first novel can be (well, maybe you don't, but take it from me, it can be horrible).
		Girlfriend in a Coma is less a novel than it is a manifesto, a crude laying-out of what's to come, the genius work that's hopefully right around the corner.
	www.jasonpettus.com /essays/coma.htm (2666 words)

	Girlfriend in a Coma (Douglas Coupland) Easter Egg : Many Smiths References (Besides the Title) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Girlfriend in a Coma (Douglas Coupland) may have Slip-Ups on our companion site Slipups.com.
		Everybody knows the title of Douglas Coupland's book "Girlfriend in a Coma" was lifted from the Smiths song of the same name.
		The duration of the coma is also lifted from a song, and it's made its way as a sentence too.
	www.eeggs.com /items/2908.html (384 words)

	Girlfriend in a Coma
		So when Karen awakes from her coma on Nov. 1, 1997, she is mentally the same age as her daughter, Megan.
		Unfortunately, Girlfriend in a Coma unplugs itself from reality long before it touches on anything approaching a mature vision of the world.
		Girlfriend in a Coma by Douglas Coupland, Harper Collins, hc., 284 pp., $27
	www.montrealmirror.com /ARCHIVES/1998/032698/book.html (661 words)

	- naive - girlfriend in a coma by douglas coupland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		- naive - girlfriend in a coma by douglas coupland
		Like pretty much every Coupland book (Gen X, Shampoo Planet, Microserfs et al) "Girlfriend..." follows the lives of a group of people who sit around and talk a lot about how their lives are empty and meaningless.
		The basic idea is that a group of teenagers are having a good drinking session in 1979 when one of them slips into a coma, where she stays for the next twenty years.
	www.ulfius.com /oldnaive/girlfriend.html (490 words)

	purevolume™ \| Girlfriend In A Coma
		Girlfriend.In.A.Coma are an unstoppable rock machine from Rochester, NY who are bent on the destruction of all mankind...
		Girlfriend In A Coma hasn't posted a blog yet.
		Girlfriend In A Coma hasn't posted any shows yet.
	www.purevolume.com /girlfriendinacoma/fans (69 words)

	carpe librum - Douglas Coupland: Girlfriend in a coma -- Bücher - Schmöker - Rezensionen
		carpe librum - Douglas Coupland: Girlfriend in a coma -- Bücher - Schmöker - Rezensionen
		Douglas Coupland (1961), offensichtlich fasziniert von dieser Frage, läßt in "Girlfriend in a Coma" einen Teenager der 70’er Jahre in ein Koma fallen und fast zwanzig Jahre später in einer modernen, schnellen Welt wieder aufwachen.
		Doch die Ironie, bisher Markenzeichen für Coupland, scheint ihm in ‘Girlfriend in a Coma’ nicht mehr ausreichend.
	rezensionen.literaturwelt.de /content/buch/c/t_coupland_douglas_girlfriend_in_a_coma_carpe_12168.html (854 words)

	the peak (25/5/1998) arts: Girlfriend in a Coma
		In the same despondent tone of Morrisey's song "Girlfriend in a Coma", Coupland illustrates the angst and apathy from which the modern young adult suffers.
		But if the author is ostracized by a few harsh critics for his lofty and arguably self conscious efforts, any true Coupland fan knows that while looking for the meaning of life may be the author's quintessential pastime, he never intends to find it.
		Girlfriend in a Coma doesn't claim to have found the answers to these questions.
	www.peak.sfu.ca /the-peak/98-2/issue4/girlfriend.html (1123 words)

	Girlfriend In A Coma \| The Onion - America's Finest News Source (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Girlfriend In A Coma, set in Vancouver, takes its name from a Smiths song, and much of the book reads like it's aimed at the same teenage boys and girls who mope to Morrissey.
		Karen is a 17-year-old who loses her virginity in 1979, then almost immediately falls into a coma that lasts for 18 years.
		Girlfriend In A Coma is a weird, rambling foray into science fiction and It's A Wonderful Life-style hypothesizing that fails to amass much sympathy for any of the characters—who spend much of the novel doing drugs, drinking, and talking about pop culture like leftovers from a Bret Easton Ellis story.
	www.theonion.com /content/node/19204 (379 words)

	michael net
		This is what you do when you are reading "Girlfriend in Coma", and this is what you will do long after reading it.
		Girlfriend in a Coma is a book about the sense and meaning of life.
		She is alive, but she is in a coma, her brain activities reduced to the minimum.
	sukkulent.net /mike/girlfriend_in_a_coma.html (2539 words)

	GE Vol 4, No 3 - Freedom
		In his latest novel, Girlfriend in a Coma, Canadian author Douglas Coupland continues on the path he started on with his debut Generation X. That was mainly concerned with the lives of thirty-somethings in the 90s, charting the emptiness of post-modern society.
		Girlfriend in a Coma takes the search even further.
		Girlfriend in a Coma is published by Regan Books, a division of HarperCollins New York.
	globalexpress.initiativesofchange.org /issue15/girlfriendinacoma.html (293 words)

	Girlfriend in a Coma by Douglas Coupland: Book Reviews: Calderdale Council (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		'Karen, 17 years old and pregnant, goes into a coma and awakes 17 years later to meet her now teenage 'baby' and her friends who are, of course, 17 years older.
		One of the group, the eponymous girlfriend, falls into a coma - she comes out of the coma in 1997.
		The second part covers the intervening years, following the remaining friends and the deterioration of the girlfriend until she awakes and then her rehabilitation.
	www.calderdale.gov.uk /libraries/books/reviews/bookreviews.jsp?id=872 (577 words)

	Amazon.com: Girlfriend in a Coma: Books: Douglas Coupland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		"Girlfriend in a Coma" is one of those titles that just sucks you in, and on the advice of a pal, I started reading the works of Douglas Coupland with this book.
		The first half of the book is basically about Karen's coma and how it affects the people around her; the second half is the surreal, semi-supernatural apocalypse.
		Having now read "Life After God," "Microserfs" and "Girlfriend in a Coma" back-to-back-to-back, it's obvious that Coupland had a mortal terror of the emptiness and faithlessness of the '90s culture.
	www.amazon.com /Girlfriend-Coma-Douglas-Coupland/dp/0060987324 (2918 words)

	CSIndy: Girlfriend in a Coma...oh no... (February 20, 2003)
		It's the story of two men whose lives converge on the coma ward of a Madrid hospital.
		Benigno and Marco become friends as the former schools the latter in the lifestyle of existing between mourner and nurse.
		They maneuver their girlfriends in the sun like a couple of Florida mah-jongg champs, while Benigno encourages Marco, as the title says, to talk to her.
	www.csindy.com /csindy/2003-02-20/film2.html (607 words)

	Ink 19 :: Girlfriend in a Coma
		In Girlfriend, Coupland, a Vancouver native, deftly applies all of his prosaic gifts -- a keen ear for dialog, a satirist's eye for pop-cultural absurdity, and a profound love for his characters -- to a story involving death, spiritual awakening, and the apocalypse as seen from British Columbia.
		While these elements have appeared in previous works by the author, such were fleeting cameos and mere preludes to the gripping drama and fully-developed story into which they are invested in Girlfriend.
		Previous Coupland works have succeeded best in helping those in Generation X to understand post-modern culture and their seeming need to fractionalize it into a primary school collage of high and low art.
	www.ink19.com /issues_F/98_05/wet_ink/print/139_girlfriend_nf.html (203 words)

	Girlfriend in a Coma - Douglas Coupland - Printed Books Shopping at dooyoo.co.uk
		Girlfriend In A Coma has almost exactly the same character as its protagonists - human, blowing hot and cold, involving but somehow not that likable.
		How the events surrounding Karen's coma (strangely predicted by the girl herself through odd visions of a vaguely apocalyptic future) and Jared's death come together again is...
		Girlfriend in a Coma - Douglas Coupland : Millennial Angst
	www.dooyoo.co.uk /printed-books/girlfriend-in-a-coma-douglas-coupland (273 words)

	Review of Girlfriend in a Coma
		Spanning two decades in the close-knit lives of friends in Vancouver, his kinetic text begins with the episode that lands the narrator's girlfriend in her 18-year coma.
		But whether it was the mix of pills and booze or Karen's premonition of a dreary future that rendered her comatose, the tragedy reverberates among her pals, whose lives will spiral out of control over the next two decades.
		Of course, he must deal with their growing daughter, conceived the night before Karen's coma and unaware of her mother for seven years.
	members.tripod.com /coupland/gc25.html (313 words)

	RPGamer Editorials - Girlfriend In a Coma or an Exhausted Child? The reason FF8 is not a masterpiece.
		RPGamer Editorials - Girlfriend In a Coma or an Exhausted Child?
		Girlfriend In a Coma or an Exhausted Child?
		Yet when Rinoa falls into a coma in FF8 I was sarcastically humming "Girlfriend In a Coma" by The Smiths, as I looked for a save spot so I could go back to playing Gran Turismo.
	www.rpgamer.com /editor/2000/q2/060300xp.html (372 words)

	Salon \| Books: Girlfriend in a Coma
		So if the characters in "Girlfriend in a Coma" strike the reader as remarkably unengaging, that's OK, because that's how they are supposed to be.
		"Girlfriend in a Coma" is another glum Coupland novel that never musters the strength to get satisfyingly morose.
		Karen McNeil, a 17-year-old girl, goes into a coma in 1979 and wakes up in 1997 -- mental faculties intact.
	www.salon.com /books/sneaks/1998/03/27review.html (488 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Girlfriend in a Coma: Books: Douglas Coupland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		It's also done in a way that tantalisingly hints at answers being given later in the book, and ones that are tied up with Karen, the eponymous girlfriend, and the visions she had before her coma.
		Karen waking from the coma is very moving, and her first reactions to meeting everyone again are interesting, but the apocalyptic section moves the book more to the realm of sci fi thriller.
		Girlfirned in a Coma is an accssible, engrossing and easy read, the characters are great and the story is an excellent snap shot of the culture of it's time.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0006551270 (1824 words)

	Douglas Coupland - Girlfriend in a coma - @forums
		Tori got the idea for Choirgirl from the artist, who is the same artist who did the cover of Girlfriend.
		Anyhoo, the book is about a girl in a coma for what, 20 years or so, and then she wakes up and has to deal with that.
		Girlfriend in A Coma is THE BEST BOOK EVER WRITTEN!!!!
	www.atforumz.com /showthread.php?t=2638 (500 words)

	Amazon.com: Girlfriend In A Coma: Books: Douglas Coupland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		After making love with Richard on a mountaintop, she had confessed to having dreams of a frightening future about her friends and home; now, she lapses into a mysterious sleep that lasts another seventeen years.
		"Girlfriend in a Coma" is in some ways not an easy book to read.
		She predicted her coma and asks Richard to wait for her.
	www.amazon.com /Girlfriend-Coma-Douglas-Coupland/dp/0002257548 (2876 words)

	Amazon.de: Girlfriend in a Coma, 2 Cassetten, Engl. ed.: English Books: Douglas Coupland,Robert S. Leonard (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Amazon.de: Girlfriend in a Coma, 2 Cassetten, Engl.
		Girlfriend in a Coma is modern fiction at its best.
		(And for everybody who thought Girlfriend in a Coma was amazing, go read his other stuff...
	www.amazon.de /Girlfriend-Coma-Cassetten-Engl-ed/dp/0694519510 (1606 words)

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		A chpater from Girlfriend in a Coma in Japanese.
		The connection between The Smiths and Douglas Coupland in Girlfriend in a Coma.
		Seems Girlfriend in a Coma didn't fare well with CBC Newsworld.
	membres.lycos.fr /coupland/coupgc.html (78 words)

	Girlfriend in a Coma reviews & ratings at Smarter.com
		Girlfriend in a Coma reviews & ratings at Smarter.com
		It's only a few hours later on that snowy Friday night in 1979 that she descends into a coma.
		Amid the world's rubble they attempt to restore their own humanity. When Karen Ann MacNeil awakes from a coma after 18 years, strange, apocalyptic events begin to happen--and later, amid the world's rubble, she and her friends must struggle to restore their own humanity.
	www.smarter.com /society_social_issues_fiction_books_product_review---pr--ci-1--pi-689047.html (187 words)

	Girlfriend in a coma by Douglas Coupland \| LibraryThing
		Girlfriend in a coma by Douglas Coupland
		Now they feel cheaper because "Girlfriend" is so much in awe of them.
		It's a silly story, a kind of moral fantasy, and it makes the reader work to hard to sympathise with its broken-soul characters.
	www.librarything.com /work/894 (450 words)

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