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9780312054366
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Publisher
St. Martin's Press
ISBN-10
031205436X
ISBN-13
9780312054366
eBay Product ID (ePID)
24038283762

Product Key Features

Book Title
Generation X : Tales for an Accelerated Culture
Number of Pages
192 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
1991
Topic
Short Stories (Single Author), Literary
Features
Revised
Genre
Fiction
Author
Douglas Coupland
Format
Trade Paperback

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Item Height
0.5 in
Item Weight
9.5 Oz
Item Length
9.1 in
Item Width
7.5 in

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Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
90-049959
Dewey Edition
20
Reviews
"A groundbreaking novel."--The Los Angeles Times "Captures the listlessness that accompanies growing up in today's info-laden culture."--Rolling Stone "Amusingly explores the more restless and disaffected segment of the under-30 crowd."--Cleveland Plain Dealer "A readable and valid account of a generation that envisions a completely new genuine genre of bohemianism."--San Francisco Chronicle, "A groundbreaking novel."-- The Los Angeles Times "Captures the listlessness that accompanies growing up in today's info-laden culture."-- Rolling Stone "Amusingly explores the more restless and disaffected segment of the under-30 crowd."-- Cleveland Plain Dealer "A readable and valid account of a generation that envisions a completely new genuine genre of bohemianism."-- San Francisco Chronicle, A readable and valid account of a generation that envisions a completely new genuine genre of bohemianism., "A groundbreaking novel." -- The Los Angeles Times "Captures the listlessness that accompanies growing up in today's info-laden culture." -- Rolling Stone "Amusingly explores the more restless and disaffected segment of the under-30 crowd." -- Cleveland Plain Dealer "A readable and valid account of a generation that envisions a completely new genuine genre of bohemianism." -- San Francisco Chronicle
Dewey Decimal
813/.54
Edition Description
Revised edition
Synopsis
Generation X is Douglas Coupland's classic novel about the generation born from 1960 to 1978 --a generation known until then simply as twenty somethings. Andy, Claire, and Dag, each in their twenties, have quit pointless jobs in their respective hometowns to find better meaning in life. Adrift in the California desert, the trio develops 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 their own modern fables of love and death among the cosmetic surgery parlors and cocktail bars of Palm Springs as well as disturbingly funny tales of nuclear waste, historical overdosing, and mall culture. A dark snapshot of the trio's highly fortressed inner world quickly emerges--peeling back the layers on their fanatical individualism, pathological ambivalence about the future, and unsatisfied longing for permanence, love, and their own home. Andy, Dag, and Claire are underemployed, overeducated, intensely private, and unpredictable. They have nowhere to assuage their fears, and no culture to replace their anomie., Generation X is Douglas Coupland's classic novel about the generation born in the late 1950s and 1960s--a generation known until then simply as twenty somethings. Andy, Claire, and Dag, each in their twenties, have quit pointless jobs in their respective hometowns to find better meaning in life. Adrift in the California desert, the trio develops 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 their own modern fables of love and death among the cosmetic surgery parlors and cocktail bars of Palm Springs as well as disturbingly funny tales of nuclear waste, historical overdosing, and mall culture. A dark snapshot of the trio's highly fortressed inner world quickly emerges--peeling back the layers on their fanatical individualism, pathological ambivalence about the future, and unsatisfied longing for permanence, love, and their own home. Andy, Dag, and Claire are underemployed, overeducated, intensely private, and unpredictable. They have nowhere to assuage their fears, and no culture to replace their anomie.
LC Classification Number
PS3553.O855G46 1991

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  • by dasas_3495
    18 May, 2021

    Zany feel good comedy.

    I strongly recommend this novel to free spirits of all ages. A snapshot of youth searching zen. The drama/comedy touches this trio as they share experiences of their early twenties throughout North America and land in sunny Palm Springs. Though the book was written circa 1990, the content has come to life and reverbates with currents. I do warn you that this light hearted fiction will leave you wondering who are your friends and family and wonder what they really mean to you. As Bowie said it "Turn and face the stranges ch-ch-changes".

    Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-ownedSold by: cornucopiaofbooks

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    11 Jul, 2018

    Highly important title in Postmodern Literature history at a very affordable price

    Very pleased to have picked up such an important and scarce first printing for such an inexpensive price.

    Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-ownedSold by: greatbooksannex

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