{"product_id":"2940169148138","title":"JPod","description":"Very evil¿very funny\u003cbr\u003eA lethal joyride into today's new breed of technogeeks, Douglas Coupland's new novel updates \u003ci\u003eMicroserfs\u003c\/i\u003e for the age of Google.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEthan 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.\u003cbr\u003eThe six jPodders wage daily battle against the demands of a bone-headed 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 gray 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrom the Cassette edition.\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47104423067888,"sku":"2940169148138","price":22.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940169148138_p0.jpg?v=1763763555","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940169148138","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}