Miss Havisham including: Both "Sunset Boulevard" and "What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?" were inspired by David Lean's adaptation of "Great Expectations", as were, by extension, the characters of Norma Desmond and Baby Jane Hudson, and their homes. The condition of the "Miss Havisham effect" has been coined by scientists to describe a person who suffers a painful longing for lost love, which can become a physically addictive pleasure by activation of reward and pleasure centres in the brain, which have been identified to regulate addictive behaviour – regions commonly known to be responsible for craving and drug, alcohol and gambling addiction.
Miss Wyoming (novel) of them became friends. Some of them I met in passing, but I ended up with this huge reservoir of things [about fame] that wanted to be tapped." "Miss Wyoming" marked a radical departure from Coupland's writing style for earlier novels. Previously, he wrote his notes from a notebook filled with observations. For "Miss Wyoming", Coupland internalized the note-taking process. It was also his first novel written entirely in the third person. Jensen, Mikkel "Miss(ed) Generation: Douglas Coupland's "Miss Wyoming." in "Culture Unbound: Journal of Current Cultural Research", Volume 3, 2011, pp. 455–474. Direct link: http://www.cultureunbound.ep.liu.se/v3/a29/cu11v3a29.pdf Miss Wyoming (novel) Miss