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| | Amazon.ca: Souvenir of Canada: Books: Douglas Coupland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12) |
 | | Souvenir of Canada, Coupland's image-thronged tribute to all things Canadian, is alphabetically divided into brief sections on everything from important issues like Native people's reserves and Canada's relationship with the U.S. (the White House desk "may well even have an ABSORB CANADA button") to such cultural ephemera as French-language cereal boxes. |
 | | Canadians have become "plastic," he moralizes; "in Canada you're not even a citizenyou're a brand." Nevertheless, Coupland celebrates Canada for this very quality (see, for instance, the image of the beer bottle featured on the book's cover, or the photos inside of cigarette packets, 222 boxes, Captain Crunch, McCain's frozen fiddleheads, and IGA bacon). |
 | | There's even a separate dictionary entry under the heading "Doug." A rail journey across Canada reminds Coupland of his relatives: "It was easy to imagine the ghosts of passengers of yore [yore??]my family mostly." Many of the photos included in the book are by Karin Buba, obviously a friend of the author. |
| www.amazon.ca /Souvenir-Canada-Douglas-Coupland/dp/1550549170 (2599 words) |
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