{"id":13833,"title":"PlayerOne (What is to Become of Us)","dimensions":"22.2 x 14.2 cm, 246 p., language : English, publisher : William Heinemann (The Random House Group Limited), London, ISBN : 978-0-434-02104-8","date_begin":"2010-01-01","material":"Ink, paper","art_status_id":13,"legal_status_id":47,"category_id":26,"platform_id":1,"deleted":false,"asset_count":2,"stream_count":0,"collection":"Collection M HKA, Antwerp ","cached_tag_list":"Artist novel","publishing_process_id":1,"annotation":"","date_end":null,"reference":"B 2027/696","stream_count_app":6,"permalink":"playerone-what-is-to-become-of-us","description_ca":null,"short_description_ca":null,"description_it":null,"short_description_it":null,"cached_primary_asset_url":null,"cached_actor_names":null,"hide_from_json":false,"prev_platform_id":null,"description_uk":null,"short_description_uk":null,"description_tr":null,"short_description_tr":null,"mhka_works":true,"category":{"en":"Book","nl":"Boek","fr":"Livre"},"poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/032/021/large/Untitled145.jpg?1464089419","poster_credits":null,"translations":[{"locale":"en","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLiterary synopsis\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"drop-cap\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"drop-cap__inner\"\u003eI\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003et\u0026#39;s the end of an era: our era. What better place to watch the end of the world than the shabby Toronto Airport Camelot Hotel cocktail lounge? When oil prices suddenly rise to almost a thousand dollars a barrel, the power cuts out, the TV fades to static and planes stop taking off. No one can get a cellphone to work. While things explode, and toxic fallout drifts closer, we get to know Karen, a receptionist at a psychiatric clinic who has flown in to meet a guy from an internet chatroom; Luke, a small-town pastor who has just run off with $20,000 from the church renovation fund; Rachel, an impossibly beautiful young autistic woman who has bought a $3,400 Chanel dress in order to help find a man to father her child; and Rick, an ex-alcoholic bartender who wants to give everything he owns to a self-help guru with a bad fake tan.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e-Scarlett Thomas\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://www.coupland.com/books/player-one\"\u003eNovel\u0026#39;s website\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/books/2010/oct/16/player-one-douglas-coupland-review\"\u003eNovel\u0026#39;s website 2\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"nl","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"fr","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"ru","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"de","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"es","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"el","short_description":"","description":""}],"actors":[{"id":2896,"name":"Douglas Coupland","category":{"en":"Author","nl":"Auteur","fr":"Auteur"}}]}