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All Families Are Psychotic (Paperback)
by Douglas Coupland (Author)
3.3 out of 5 stars  (6 customer reviews)

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  • Paperback: 240 pages
  • Publisher: Flamingo; New Ed edition (1 Jul 2002)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0007151705
  • ISBN-13: 978-0007151707
  • Product Dimensions: 17.7 x 11.1 x 2.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  (6 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 625,354 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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On the eve of the next Space Shuttle mission, a divided family comes together...Warm, witty and wise, All Families Are Psychotic is Coupland at the very top of his form: 'Irresistibly hilarious, unique and wonderful' Independent on Sunday In a cheap motel an hour from Cape Canaveral, Janet Drummond takes her medication, and does a rapid tally of the whereabouts of her children. Wade has spent the night in jail; suicidal Bryan is due to arrive at any moment with his vowel-free girlfriend, Shw; and then there is Sarah, 'a bolt of lightning frozen in midflash' -- here in Orlando to be the star of Friday's shuttle mission. With Janet's ex-husband and his trophy wife also in town, Janet spends a moment contemplating her family, and where it all went wrong. Or did it?

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Lack of believability damages this book, 8 May 2004
By Anthony Lynas (Leicester, UK) - See all my reviews
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After reading the excellent Girlfriend in a Coma and Hey! Nostradamus, I was really looking forward to All Families are Psychotic, but ultimately it was a let-down.

Basically, the book revolves around a dysfunctional family drawn back together because the daughter is a NASA astronaut about to go into space on the Shuttle. From this, there develops a sub-plot based on one of the son's dodgy dealings to generate large amounts of cash.

Coupland's writing style is informal and readable, and in places the book is funny - without ever approaching the "hilarious" status hinted at in many reviews. But any good work is completely undone by the contrived and completely unrealistic back-stories all the major characters have. Coupland's world-weary and cynical take on Florida is slightly overdone but also seems out of place in a book where the reader would have to be naive in the extreme to accept the characters and their lives as they are presented to them.

I couldn't recommend this novel because of this; try one of the aforementioned Coupland books instead.

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