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Microserfs

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Microserfs Information
1,520 words, approx. 5 pages
Microserfs, published by HarperCollins in 1995, is a novel by Douglas Coupland. It first appeared in short story form [1] as the cover article for the January, 1994 issue of Wired [2] and was subsequently expanded to full novel length. Set in the early...


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The Nation
Microserfs. (book reviews)
06/26/1995: 1,051 words, approx. 4 pages
The Microserfs of Douglas Coupland's latest novel are the men and women in the gray flannel shirts, working through the weekend. Boys and girls, really: These twentynothing vassals of Bill Gates's software empire live mired in bogs of arrested Oedipal development, toiling away...
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The Independent - London
Click, and I'm a Microserf
04/07/1997: 919 words, approx. 3 pages
So the fax stuttered in out of nowhere, hard after the accountant's letter and just before that riveting chat-show proposal from Radio Five Live. Would I like to work for Microsoft, as the editor of its new on- line music and culture magazine, Blizzard?...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Review by Rick Perlstein
1,066 words, approx. 4 pages
In the following review of Microserfs, Perlstein critiques the value of Coupland's insights into contemporary culture.
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Critical Review by Peter Jukes
1,053 words, approx. 4 pages
In the following review, Jukes compares a journalistic account of the computer software profession with Coupland's Microserfs and assesses the novelist's depiction of cyberculture.
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Critical Review by James Aley
840 words, approx. 3 pages
In the following review of Microserfs, Aley evaluates the substance of Coupland's characters and prose style.


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