Polaroids from the Dead
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| Author | Douglas Coupland |
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| Country | Canada |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | HarperCollins Canada |
| Released | 1996 |
| Media Type | print (hardcover and paperback) |
| Pages | 198 |
| Preceded by | Microserfs |
| Followed by | Girlfriend in a Coma |
Polaroids from the Dead is a collection of short stories by Douglas Coupland. The theme is that each story is written from a collection of old polaroids Coupland found in a drawer. It is an attempt to describe the 1990s, a decade that "seemed to be living in a 1980s hangover". Topics of the stories include a burnt-out Grateful Dead concert (source of "the dead" in title), a post-mortem letter to Kurt Cobain, the Lions Gate Bridge, and an homage to James Rosenquist's F-111. The book's ends with a longer description of the city of Palo Alto, (more specifically, Brentwood, California), the home of Marilyn Monroe's grave, and the OJ Simpson trial. The essay is a collage of menus, scraps of conversation, and postings from bulletin boards.
