The Washington Post, April 2nd, 1998
GIRLFRIEND IN A COMA By Douglas Coupland ReganBooks/HarperCollins. 284 pp. $24 By Paul Di Filippo, a writer living in Providence, R.I., whose most recent novel is "Fractal Paisleys." Laboring bravely under the weight of early literary fame and pop-culture notoriety, Douglas Coupland has borne up surprisingly well. While staying true to himself, he has enlarged his spheres of interest enough to remain au courant. His "Microserfs" (1995), for instance, charted the uneasy lives of the low-level digerati in Silicon Valley. Given that his coinage of the term "Generation X" for his canny first nove...
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