Hey Nostradamus!; Douglas Coupland at Stray Talk
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15th March, 2008
Hey Nostradamus!; Douglas Coupland
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Filed under: B, English, Fiction, To Be Read

Hey Nostradamus!; Douglas Coupland Hey Nostradamus!
by Douglas Coupland
Canadian

For the To Be Read challenge.

English
260 pages
Harper Perennial
ISBN: 0-00-718258-9

First line: I believe that what separates humanity from all else in this world—spaghetti, binder, paper, deep-sea creatures, edelweiss and Mount McKinley—is that humanity alone has the capacity at any given moment to commit all possibly sins.

Back cover blurb:
Cheryl Anway, 17, secretly married to her high-school sweetheart and pregnant, doodles “God is nowhere, God is now here” on her class binder. Hours later, clutching the same binder, she is shot dead…

Thoughts: Not my favourite of Coupland’s books, but not by any means a bad read, this is a melancholy sort of tale. It earns a B rating from me.



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