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From jetzt, the youth magazine of Süddeutsche Zeitung (October 6, 2000) by Senka Behremovic Ticket to Happiness Remembering the late Seventies: Douglas Coupland's exclusive new short story on http://www.jetzt.de/coupland. Tuning into
the vibes of youth culture, creating a feeling of historical present tense:
That's what Canadian writer Douglas Coupland ("Generation X"), is best
known for. In Germany, he has discovered a young, cutting-edge magazine
with similar objectives, and he kind of likes the people there: "jetzt",
the weekly supplement of leading newspaper Sueddeutsche Zeitung. So, Coupland
chose to publish his new short story "Lotto" exclusively in the German
mag - but at the same time, his worldwide fan community is not excluded.
At http://www.jetzt.de/coupland, the full story is available in it's English
original - and it marks a departure for the writer. We can guess that
the narrator's experience is not too far from Coupland's own upbringing:
Living with his parents in the late Seventies, he sports a feathery Van-Halen-Hairdo,
wears Adidas sneakers and drives a rusty Rabbit. All is well in suburban
family life, until the morning when Dad returns from the 7-Eleven, a winning
lottery ticket in hand... Life, of course, will never be the same after
that. *********************************************** Tel: 089-2183
8410 senka.behremovic@jetzt.de jetzt: Das
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