‘A romantic comedy, a social satire, and a masterpiece of elegant construction.’--ESQUIRE
‘John Johnson is a successful movie producer now on his uppers, mired in disillusion and alcohol. In a near-death experience, he has a vision of a beautiful girl who can save him - an actress called Susan Colgate, glimpsed in a re-run of an ancient soap-opera on his hospital television set. John, recovering, determines that he will "simply stop being me". He will erase himself, disappear, re-create himself- and find Susan... Coupland has passion and pace, intelligence and wit If you find anything about the way we live now disturbing and wrong, he is your man. (He is my man.)’ --DAILY TELEGRAPH