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GENERATION X: TALES FOR AN ACCELERATED CULTURE By Douglas Coupland - Hardcover
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Publication Name
- St Martins Pr
- Narrative Type
- Fiction
- Item Length
- 8.25 inches
- Original Language
- English
- Intended Audience
- Young Adults, Adults
- Edition
- First Edition
- Vintage
- Yes
- Type
- Hardcover
- Item Height
- 9.25 inches
- ISBN-10
- 0312118147
- Features
- Dust Jacket, Illustrated
- Item Width
- 1.25 inches
- Item Weight
- 1.2 pounds
- ISBN
- 9780312118143
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
ISBN-10
0312118147
ISBN-13
9780312118143
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1995777
Product Key Features
Publication Year
1994
Topic
Short Stories (Single Author)
Book Title
Generation X : Tales for an Accelerated Culture
Language
English
Genre
Fiction
Format
Hardcover
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
20
Dewey Decimal
813/.54
Synopsis
Generation X is Douglas Coupland's acclaimed salute to the generation born in the late 1950s and 1960s--a generation known vaguely up to then as "twentysomething." Andy, Claire, and Dag, each in their twenties, have quit "pointless jobs done grudgingly to little applause" in their respective hometowns and cut themselves adrift on the California desert. In search of the drastic changes that will lend meaning to their lives, they've mired themselves in the detritus of American cultural memory. Refugees from history, the three develop an ascetic regime of story-telling, boozing, and working McJobs--"low-pay, low-prestige, low-benefit, no-future jobs in the service industry." They create modern fables of love and death among the cosmetic surgery parlors and cocktail bars of Palm Springs, disturbingly funny tales of nuclear waste, historical overdosing, and mall culture. A dark snapshot of the trio's highly fortressed inner world quickly emerges--landscapes peopled with dead TV shows, "Elvis moments," and semi-disposable Swedish furniture. And from these landscapes, deeper portraits emerge, those of fanatically independent individuals, pathologically ambivalent about the future and brimming with unsatisfied longings for permanence, for love, and for their own home. Andy, Dag, and Claire are underemployed, overeducated, intensely private, and unpredictable. Like the group they mirror, they have nowhere to assuage their fears, and no culture to replace their anomie.
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