Polaroids from the Dead

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<tr><td colspan="2" style="text-align: center;">Image:Polaroidsfromthedead.jpg</td></tr> <tr><th>Country</th><td>Canada</td></tr><tr><th>Language</th><td>English</td></tr> <tr><th>Media Type</th><td>print (hardcover and paperback)</td></tr><tr><th>Pages</th><td>198</td></tr><tr><th>Preceded by</th><td>Microserfs</td></tr><tr><th>Followed by</th><td>Girlfriend in a Coma</td></tr>

**Polaroids from the Dead**
Author	Douglas Coupland
Publisher	HarperCollins Canada
Released	1996

Polaroids from the Dead is a collection of short stories by Douglas Coupland. The theme is that each story is written from a collection of old polaroids Coupland found in a drawer. It is an attempt to describe the 1990s, a decade that "seemed to be living in a 1980s hangover". Topics of the stories include a burnt-out Grateful Dead concert (source of "the dead" in title), a post-mortem letter to Kurt Cobain, the Lions Gate Bridge, and an homage to James Rosenquist's F-111. The book's ends with a longer description of the city of Palo Alto, (more specifically, Brentwood, California), the home of Marilyn Monroe's grave, and the OJ Simpson trial. The essay is a collage of menus, scraps of conversation, and postings from bulletin boards.