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Synopsis
Sarah Drummond-Fournier is an astronaut, but she was a thalidomide baby who only has one arm. As she's about to be launched on a space shuttle, she confesses that she has AIDS, which she got when a bullet passed through the body of her afflicted son, Wade, and into her own, when Wade's father tried to kill him. Meanwhile, Wade and his friends transport a stolen letter from Princess Di to a contact in the Bahamas.
| Size | | Length: | 288 pages | | Height: | 8.0 in | | Width: | 5.5 in | | Thickness: | 1.0 in | | Weight: | 12.0 oz |
Publisher's Notes
First Line: "Janet opened her eyes--Florida's prehistoric glare dazzled outside the motel window."
Industry Reviews
"...Coupland's novel is ultimately optimistic. Like Anne Tyler, he intertwines the garish and unmeaning events he describes with a thread of hope....Coupland presents us with a heroine rising above the mess of modern America, an honestly trusting person moving through the downbeat style and the defeated, disconnected world of modern American fiction."
Times Literary Supplement - Michael Newton (09/14/2001)
"Despite the grim prognoses for most of its characters, the novel isn't somber. It's chirpy, bright and strenuously zany....Most of the characters in this new novel are middle-aged, but they're soft and insipid--they make the navel-gazing Gen-Xers [of Coupland's first novel] look like wise old souls. It's hard to feel deeply for characters who don't feel deeply, and the Drummonds experience strong emotion as profoundly as a sneeze."
New York Times Book Review - Jennifer Reese (09/16/2001)
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