Tom Lynch

The bestselling author of the seminal angst novel "Generation X" and the tragic, infuriatingly powerful "Hey Nostradamus!" returns this week with "Eleanor Rigby," about a lonely, sad sack woman in her mid-thirties who is reunited with her long lost son who's, unfortunately, terminally ill. A plot like this could've easily ventured off into something similar to a candy bar filled with shit, but trust Coupland--he knows where he's going. Liz is lonely, Jeremy is sick and charming, and they end up being rather perfect for each other. Coupland's Vancouver is gray and weary and dependent on person-to-person relationships. No one can be alone and be comfortable. Everyone is dead or dying or thinking about death. "All the lonely people, where do they all come from?" We hear you, Doug.

Douglas Coupland reads from "Eleanor Rigby" on February 2 at Borders Books, 2817 North Clark, (773)935-3909, at 7:30pm. Free.

(2005-01-25)

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