The brilliant new novel from the bestselling cult author of them all. Susan and John need to disappear -- Susan and John need to find each other. Meet Susan Colgate -- Miss Wyoming. Winner of a hundred teen pageants, child star of Meet the Blooms (America's favourite family), owner of a hideously pushy mother...and now reduced to small, brainless parts in small, brainless movies. Oh, and sole survivor of Flight 802. If she were to walk away from the wreckage now, before the emergency crews get here, she could disappear and nobody would ever know...Meet John Johnson -- action film star (Bel Air P.I...um, Bel Air P.I. 2), occasional sado-masochist, junkie. He just died -- but only for 5 minutes. All the crap he's done to his body over the years, and it's a flu that killed him! But while he was gone, he saw a vision of a woman's face and realized that it was time to escape, to ditch the baggage of being horny, rich, lonely John Johnson and to lose himself. To disappear. Wouldn't it be nice if they were to find themselves and get together? In many ways a reprise of Girlfriend in a Coma (60,000 copies sold in paperback in its first three months...) , Miss Wyoming represents a further leap forwards into the World According to Coupland -- a witty, genuinely funny look at who we are, how we can change, and how we can make a difference.
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Praise for Girlfriend in a Coma: 'An ambitious new urban myth... Coupland has managed to marry a parable to his sociological observational skills, at the same time avoiding a mawkish, sentimental story... A dark, prescient book, a meditation on the mystery of life, the next step in a continuing search for meaning.' Mike Bradley, The Times 'A millennial novel of a very subtle and interesting kind. It's visually brilliant, full of extraordinary imagery, fresh like new paint. I was absolutely knocked over by it.' Tom Paulin, Late Review
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4.0 out of 5 stars
masterly written and unusually entertaining,
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This review is from: Miss Wyoming Uk Edition (Paperback)
This is certainly the best book I have read from Douglas Coupland and one of the best books by a contemporary writer. The characters are very entertaining. They each have their peculiarities and flaws, which makes them so lifelike. The story itself might be a little farfetched, but aren't we all looking for that in books? With other books I read from mr. Coupland, I always had difficulty with the lack of action, but this book is so action-packed that I simply could not put it down. This is modern literature and not just for our fast and furious MTV-influenced youth. It's about a pair of weird people who act just like you and I would in a similair situation as theirs.Just enjoy it, I did!!!
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