Life After God - Definition and Overview

Life After God is a collection of short stories by Douglas Coupland, published in 1994. The stories are set around a theme of a generation (which readers of Coupland's work can easily assume to be Generation X) raised without religion. The stories, while not necessarily religious in theme, are meant to show how the lack of religion affects the characters.

Stories

These are the stories that appear in the book, in the order of appearance:

• "Little Creatures"
• "My Hotel Year"
• "Things That Fly"
• "The Wrong Sun"
• "Gettysburg"
• "In The Desert"
• "Patty Hearst"
• "1,000 Years (Life After God)"

ISBN numbers

• ISBN 0671874330 (hardcover, 1994)
• ISBN 0671874349 (paperback, 1995)
• ISBN 0743231511 (trade paperback, 2002)

See also

• 1994 in literature