by Douglas Coupland (Author)
On a snowy Friday night in 1979, just hours after making love for the first time, Richard's girlfriend, high school senior Karen Ann McNeil, falls into a coma. Nine months later she gives birth to their daughter, Megan. As Karen sleeps through the next seventeen years, Richard and their circle of friends reside in an emotional purgatory, passing through a variety of careers--modeling, film special effects, medicine, demolition--before finally reuniting on a conspiracy-driven super-natural television series. But real life grows as surreal as their TV show as Richard and his friends await Karen's reawakening . . . and the subsequent apocalypse.
Number of Pages: 304
Dimensions: 0.9 x 7.8 x 5.3 IN
Publication Date: November 11, 2008
Accelerated Reader:
Quiz Name: Girlfriend in a Coma
Interest Level: Upper Grades, 9-12
Reading Level: 5.1
Point Value: 13