Life After God
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| Author | Douglas Coupland |
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| Country | Canada |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Pocket Books |
| Publication date | March 1994 |
| Media type | Print (hardcover & paperback) |
| Pages | 360 |
| ISBN | ISBN 0-671-87433-0 (hardcover) |
| Preceded by | Shampoo Planet |
| Followed by | Microserfs |
Life After God is a collection of short stories by Douglas Coupland, published in 1994. The stories are set around a theme of a generation raised without religion.
Most of the stories are not explicitly religious in theme but are meant to show how the lack of religion affects the characters and how they try to understand concepts such as death, love and meaning in everyday life from the secular world around them.
The book is published in pocket-sized format with simplistic illustrations accompanying each small subsection of the stories.
Like most of Coupland's work, Life After God explores the emotional and spiritual problems facing his age group, which was given the name Generation X after Coupland's 1991 novel of the same name.
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[edit] Stories
These are the stories that appear in the book, in the order of appearance:
- "Little Creatures"
- "My Hotel Year"
- "Things That Fly"
- "The Wrong Sun"
- "Gettysburg"
- "In The Desert"
- "Patty Hearst"
- "1,000 Years (Life After God)"
[edit] Trivia
- The pop-punk band The Ataris recorded a song called "My Hotel Year" on their 1998 album Look Forward to Failure, which features lyrics taken directly from the Coupland story.
- "In the Desert" is dedicated to Michael Stipe of the band R.E.M.
- Episode 18 of the anime Ergo Proxy is named after this book, as well as episode 21, Shampoo Planet, another of Coupland novels.
[edit] Editions
- ISBN 0-671-87433-0 (1994, hardcover)
- ISBN 0-671-71904-1 (1994, UK hardcover)
- ISBN 0-671-87434-9 (1995, paperback)
- ISBN 0-684-86021-X (1999, UK paperback)
- ISBN 0-7432-3151-1 (2002, trade paperback)
- ISBN 0-671-88715-7 (audiobook)
