Miss Wyoming
Miss Wyoming by Douglas Coupland, published by Pantheon Books in January 2000, is a first edition novel comprising 311 pages. This work presents a smart and humorous narrative that intertwines elements of mystery and romance. The story follows Susan, a former child beauty pageant contestant, and John, a hard-living movie producer, as they navigate life-changing experiences that lead them to reevaluate their identities and desires.
Readers will find a tale that explores the complexities of love and self-discovery against the backdrop of California’s landscape. As Susan and John embark on their journeys, they encounter a diverse cast of characters, including a blackmailing pageant mom and suburban intellectuals, each with their own aspirations. Miss Wyoming delves into themes of personal transformation and the search for genuine connection, all while maintaining a witty and engaging tone.
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From the bestselling author of Generation X and Microserfs, a smart, funny, fast-paced mystery with a heartfelt American romance at its core.
Susan is a former child-beauty-pageant contender. John is a hard-living movie producer. She walks away from a plane crash without so much as a scratch. He comes away from a near-death experience with a unique, vivid plan.
Susan refuses to spend one more day peddling herself for cheesy TV sitcom parts and takes advantage of a very weird situation to disappear. John turns his back on a hedonistic life making blockbuster action flicks. Shedding their self-made identities, each sets out on an uncharted course across the Gap-clogged, strip-mall landscape of California, searching for the thing–Love–that neither has ever really known, but that they now think they just might, actually, desperately want.
Assisting Susan and John are a blackmailing pageant mom, a pair of suburban eggheads, a rust-belt refugee, and a salad bar of other twentieth-century Americans who all share the dream of one day taking center stage. In Miss Wyoming, Douglas Coupland has combined the literary and the popular in a sparkling and witty caper that quietly resonates into the eternal.
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