Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture - Softcover

Coupland, Douglas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 031205436X ISBN 13: 9780312054366

Publisher: St Martin's Press, 1991

Synopsis

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.

About this title

Review:

"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

Book Description:

Andy, Dag and Claire represent the new generation - Generation X.

About this edition

• Publisher: St Martin's Press
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 031205436X
• ISBN 13: 9780312054366
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 183