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The roots x douglas coupland collection was announced in the globe and mail and featured clothing, art installations, sculpture, custom designed art and retail spaces. Fiction, generation x, young adults, social life and customs, dertigers, humorous stories, jeunes adultes, humorous stories 7, romans, twintigers. Martins press in 1991, is the first novel by douglas coupland. The book was published in multiple languages including english, consists of 211 pages and is available in paperback format. Generation x is douglas couplands classic novel about the generation born in the late 1950s and 1960s. Coupland had a subtle, graceful touch so light, you werent sure you felt it.
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