| City of Glass | |
| Author: | Douglas Coupland |
| Country: | Canada |
| Language: | English |
| Publisher: | Douglas and McIntyre |
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| Followed By: | Souvenir of Canada |
City of Glass is a book by Canadian author Douglas Coupland, published by Douglas and McIntyre in 2000, featuring short essays and photographs of his home town of Vancouver, British Columbia. Each essay deals with a different aspect of the city, such as the glass condominium towers which dominate the Vancouver skyline and give the book its title. It also includes the short story "My Hotel Year", which first appeared in Coupland's Life After God (1994), and the essay on another Vancouver landmark, Lions' Gate Bridge, which was published in Polaroids from the Dead (1996). An updated version of the text was released in 2009.
Canadian-born artist Una Knox produced the majority of photographic images for this book.
The book is broken down into essays, titled with bold section headings. The essays are alphabetical, with a few artistic insertions and juxtapositions.
The essays are:
abc… Backlot North Beads & Granola Bellingham & the Border The Big One Birds Cantonese Chinatown Couples Colours Dim Sum England's Dreaming The Everycity Expo 86 Feng Shui Fleece Greenpeace | The Grouse Grind Grouse Mountain Grow-ops The Harbour Hemp History … or lack thereof Japanese Slackers My Hotel Year (a story from Life After God) Kits Love Boats Main & Hastings Monster Houses Mt. Baker Number 8 Post & Beam Real Estate! The Rest of Canada | Salmon Lions Gate (an essay from Polaroids from the Dead) Seattle See-Throughs SkyTrain Stanley Park Stó:lõ Sushi Trees Vansterdam Victoria Weather The West End Whales Whistler Wildlife Wreck Beach YVR |
The book jacket’s text describes Coupland’s influence and motivation to write this book.