num_pages: 448
description: Very evil....very funnyA lethal joyride into today's new breed of technogeeks, Douglas Coupland's new novel updates Microserfs for the age of Google.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. JPod is Douglas Coupland at the top of his game.
language: English
title: JPod
titlecomplete: JPod
characters: Brandon Mark Jackson, Ethan, Steve Logan, Brianna Jyang, Kaitlin Anna Boyd Joyce, Carol Jarlewski, Dad, John Doe, Douglas Coupland, Casper Jesperson, Kam Fong, Greg Jarlewski
genres: Canada, Technology, Literary Fiction, Novels, Literature, Comedy, Adult, Fiction, Contemporary, Humor
ratings_count: 19880
places: Vancouver, British Columbia
awards: awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Scotiabank Giller Prize
publisher: Bloomsbury