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Sending a message about loneliness back in time

St. Paul, Minn. — In Douglas Coupland's new novel 'Eleanor Rigby', 36 year-old Liz Dunn has resigned herself to a life of loneliness. She lives in a small Canadian town, trying to avoid the overbearing attentions of her mother, and the rest of her family. Then one day a 20-year-old man turns up on her doorstep, and says he's her son.

Everything changes

Coupland told Minnesota Public Radio's Euan Kerr that he wrote the book almost as a message to himself.

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