{"product_id":"9781596917101","title":"JPod","description":"\u003ci\u003eJPod\u003c\/i\u003e, Douglas Coupland's most acclaimed novel to date, is a lethal joyride into today's new breed of tech worker. Ethan Jarlewski and five co-workers whose surnames begin with \"J\" are bureaucratically marooned in jPod, a no-escape architectural limbo on the fringes of a massive Vancouver game design company. The 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. \u003ci\u003eJPod\u003c\/i\u003e's universe is amoral, shameless, and dizzyingly fast-paced like our own. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePraise for JPod: \"JPod is a sleek and necessary device: the finely tuned output of an author whose obsolescence is thankfully years away.\"-New York Times Book Review\"It's to [Coupland's] credit that in JPod he's still nimble enough to take the post-modern man-too young for Boomer nostalgia and too old for youthful idealism-and drown his sorrows in a willful, joyful satire that revels in the same cultural conventions that it sends up.\"-Rocky Mountain News \u003cbr\u003e\"It's time to admire [Coupland's] virtuoso tone and how he has refined it over 11 novels. The master ironist just might redefine E. M. Forster's famous dictate 'Only connect' for the Google age.\"-USA Today \u003cbr\u003e\"Zeitgeist surfer Douglas Coupland downloads his brain into JPod.\"-Vanity Fair \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47178149560560,"sku":"9781596917101","price":8.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781596917101_p0.jpg?v=1763815154","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781596917101","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}