Romans
Février, 19 heures : un avion de la ligne Paris-Genève a disparu des radars alors qu'il amorcait son atterrissage.
A dix-huit ans, Alexis quitte sa terre beaujolaise pour étudier à la Sorbonne le russe, les Russes et la Russie. La découverte de ce nouvel univers est rude, parfois blessante. Les parallèles entre l'humanisme russe passionné et sa vie agitée le heurtent, mais nourrissent sa progression...
Roger Thorpe is a dejected, hard-drinking, divorced father and the oldest employee at Staples. A frustrated novelist to boot, Roger considers himself lost, continually haunted by dreams of missed opportunities and a long ago car accident that claimed four friends. His younger, disgruntled Goth co-worker, Bethany Twain, discovers Roger's diary one day, and lays down a supreme challenge for them both - to write diary entries to each other, while neither is allowed to acknowledge the other around the store. Some strong language.
Liz Dunn is overweight, crabby, plain, and alone, and is almost resigned to her fate of being nobody's wife or mother. As the Hale-Bopp comet streaks across the Vancouver skies, another comet crashes into her life - a young man admitted to the local hospital with her information inscribed on his Medic Alert bracelet: 'In case of emergency, contact Liz Dunn'. This triggers a chain of events that take Liz to the other side of the world and back, endangering her life just as a real chance at happiness finally seems within reach.
Tandis qu'approche un cataclysme mondial, cinq personnes sont réunies dans le bar d'un aéroport : Karen, mère célibataire ; Rick, barman fauché ; Luke, pasteur en cavale ; Rachel, autiste ; et Joueur_1, une voix mystérieuse.
Dissatisfied with life at Microsoft, a group of programmers leave the company in search of high-tech life in their own software company. Some strong language.
High school senior Karen Ann McNeil has lapsed into a coma. While her boyfriend, Richard, and their circle of friends make their way in the world, Karen remains comatose for nearly twenty years. She wakes up to find them living in an emotional purgatory and a different world. Some strong language and some descriptions of sex.
It is the near future, when honeybees have become extinct. Five people, the "Wonka children", are mysteriously stung. At the heart of the mystery is the controversial drug Solon, which allows its users to suppress anxiety by living exclusively in the present.
Pregnant and secretly married, Cheryl Anway scribbles her last will and testament - and eerie premonition - on a school binder shortly before a trio of misfit classmates gun her down in a high school cafeteria. Overrun with paranoia, teenage angst, and religious zeal in the ensuing massacre's wake, the sleepy Vancouver neighbourhood where it occurs declares its saints, brands its demons, and finally moves on.
D. Coupland compose un récit avec 5 personnages emblématiques de leur génération et ayant pour point commun d'avoir été piqués par des abeilles, au même moment dans le monde, alors que celles-ci sont en voie de disparition. Ils deviennent des célébrités et des objets d'étude, réunis par un scientifique charismatique aux intentions douteuses.
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