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"annotation": "<P>\nA stunning collection from Douglas Coupland, the author of the international bestsellers GENERATION X and JPOD, that explores the different ways 20th-century notions of the future are being shredded. His work has been translated into thirty-five languages and published around the world.\n</P>",
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