24 - Wednesday, March 16, 1994 - North Shore News
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From page 21 more controversial than any four-

fetter one, Coupland draws atten- f
style stripped to near-naive trans- tion to the sublimated religious reg. up to $3.00
parent simplicéty. impulse, the search for meaning

Things That Fly, in which the that vibrates just below the sur-
narrator returns to his “real” face of the most mundane mat- 3
home in upper West Van in the erialistic lives, be it the secret

midst of the kind of creepin world imagined by Cathy, as
anxiety-attack that afflicts those close yet as alien as the worlds of KEY mani
caught between protracted aco- men and fish, or the Apocalyptic a LONSDALE QUAY al
lescence and postponed adult- thermonuclear Flash, the “non- mom En —
hood, recalls John Cheever, mas- event” that dominated his own
ter of suburban angst, with the formative years.
parents tip-toeing around their For Coupland, Life After God
stressed-out son. is obviously a transitional book,
In the Cathy and Donny sto- a work thai is a bit like watching
ties about the daomed “girlfriend — a drunk argue with his own
unit” of a metal-head couple and __ reflection ina plate glass store
the equally doomed male hustler — window at 3 a.m., which makes
who “gets stabbed a lot” and it all the more exhilarating to
enjoys it, Coupland is frank in his read; we are watching a world-
portrayal of himself escaping the — class writer publicly re-invent
idealized middle-class vacuum. himself:
The title supposedly refers to “When you are young, you
the first North American genera- —_ always expect that the world is
tion born and raised without reli- going to end. And then you get
gion or strong beliefs in anything, older and the world still chugs
not even its own material pros- along and you are forced to re-
perity. Coupland is truly naive if evaluate your stance on the
he thinks this is undeveloped real apocalypse as well as your own
-estate: the concept of a world in relationship to time and death.
which events are essentially gra- You realize that the world will
tuitous, random and meaningless —_ indeed continue, with or without
is hardly new. you, and the pictures you see in
(Can you say, “Ex-ist-ent-ial- your head. So you try to under-
ism?” | knew you could.) stand the pictures instead.”
By deliberately uttering the ae .
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