Sentence examples for novel girlfriend from inspiring English sources

When Douglas Coupland, born in 1961, called a novel "Girlfriend in a Coma," after the song by the Smiths, it made perfect generational sense.

I'd be prepared to bet co-writers Vinterberg and Mogens Rukov had read Douglas Coupland's novel Girlfriend in a Coma before starting work.

In 1998 he published the novel Girlfriend in a Coma and, with Kip Ward, Lara's Book: Lara Croft and the Tomb Raider Phenomenon, an illustrated tribute to the popularity of the computer game Tomb Raider.

To this day, if I ever encounter a social drug, all I see is poor little Karen with locked-in syndrome in some forgotten wing of a forgotten rehab ward of a forgotten institution in some part of Vancouver that nobody ever goes to and nobody ever will...and 30 years after that scared straight lecture I wrote a novel, Girlfriend in a Coma, in which the coma patient is named Karen.

In another recent novel, the girlfriend of a notorious Syrian general is submitting to his Viagra-fueled brutality when she recalls that this is the man who has terrorized the people of Lebanon for years.

Late in the novel, Xerxes' girlfriend, Suzanne, presses him for "more about his past,... his parents' stories, their parents' stories, tidbits of whatever memory, no matter how ugly or apocalyptic the refuse in his brain," and though her demands are eventually satisfied, the reader's are not.

The second "most-completed" author, said Kobo, is Douglas Coupland, author of novels including Girlfriend in a Coma and Worst.

Earlier this summer Coupland, author of novels including Girlfriend in a Coma, Hey Nostradamus! and JPod, launched a limited collection of clothing and accessories with Canadian chain Roots, saying at the time that he has "never really seen too much difference between writing or making visual art or designing furniture or clothing.

Sarra Manning's latest YA novel, The Worst Girlfriend In The World, is out now.

PLAYER Simon Rich is a screenwriter and the author, most recently of the novel "The Last Girlfriend on Earth".

In the novel, he changes girlfriends, apartments, social-media platforms, and online-dating profiles, all while still pining for Rachel.