Rick, the recovering alcoholic bartender, is also in a state of anticipation he means to turn his life around by paying all his savings to a perma-tanned life coach. Each of them, in his or her own way, is preoccupied with the idea of life as a coherent story.įor Karen, a divorced mother nearing 40, the soulless bar represents the possibility of connection – with Warren, a man she met two weeks earlier in an internet chatroom. For the characters thrown together at the Toronto Airport Camelot Hotel cocktail lounge in Douglas Coupland's latest novel, it's a chance to reflect on the nature of time and what it means to be human. A irports lend themselves usefully to fiction they represent a world of fleeting contacts, of strangers suspended between origin and destination, a transitory moment in which identities and inhibitions can be cast aside.
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