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A review by mairispaceship
Miss Wyoming by Douglas Coupland
4.0
I really like Douglas Copeland, I don't know why, objectively his books are full of issues... But when I'm in a second hand bookshop browsing the C section of authors, I usually leave with a book or two of his.
This one was odd. It follows Susan Colgate, an ex-pageant girl and John Johnson, a failing action film director. Both characters "disappeared" in their lives. Susan after becoming the sole survivor of a plane crash and John after throwing away all his IDs and walking off. The two find each other at a pivotal moment in the plot... and you can't help but root for them to get together.
In real Douglas Copeland form, there were some powerful moments. One of my favourite (which I went in with a pencil and underlined) was a passage about how people change. That from one career to another, or from one decade to the next a person becomes someone totally different. The character laments that he can feel himself ebbing away, that the person the people around him know and love won't be around much longer and that there's nothing he can do about it. It might sound silly, but that one hit home.
In all, I enjoyed this book but not as madly as I've enjoyed others by the same author in the past. 3.5 / 5 rounded up to 4 bc Goodreads doesn't do half ratings.
This one was odd. It follows Susan Colgate, an ex-pageant girl and John Johnson, a failing action film director. Both characters "disappeared" in their lives. Susan after becoming the sole survivor of a plane crash and John after throwing away all his IDs and walking off. The two find each other at a pivotal moment in the plot... and you can't help but root for them to get together.
In real Douglas Copeland form, there were some powerful moments. One of my favourite (which I went in with a pencil and underlined) was a passage about how people change. That from one career to another, or from one decade to the next a person becomes someone totally different. The character laments that he can feel himself ebbing away, that the person the people around him know and love won't be around much longer and that there's nothing he can do about it. It might sound silly, but that one hit home.
In all, I enjoyed this book but not as madly as I've enjoyed others by the same author in the past. 3.5 / 5 rounded up to 4 bc Goodreads doesn't do half ratings.