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Douglas coupland was born on a nato base in germany in 1961. The main characters of this fiction, cultural story are bethany, roger. The ideas expressed here, in prose that is leaner and much more telling, reach ahead. Life after god is my favourite douglas coupland novel, i confess, and the closing story 1,000 years life after god is the clubhouse leader for the best thing hell ever write. Since then he has published eleven novels and several nonfiction books in 35 languages and most.
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