Generation X : tales for an accelerated culture / Douglas Coupland.
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : St. Martin's Press, 1991.Edition: 1st edDescription: vi, 183 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:- 031205436X :
- 813/.54 20
- PS3553.O855 G46 1991
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult Book | Main Library | Fiction | Coupland, Douglas | Available | 33111003952724 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
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.
The sun is your enemy -- Our parents had more -- Quit recycling the past -- I am not a target market -- Quit your job -- Dead at 30 buried at 70 -- It can't last -- Shopping is not creating -- Re con struct -- Enter hyperspace -- December 31, 1999 -- New Zealand gets nuked, too -- Monsters exist -- Don't eat yourself -- Eat your parents -- Purchased experiences don't count -- Remember earth clearly -- Change color -- Why am I poor? -- Celebrities die -- I am not jealous -- Leave your body -- Grow flowers -- Define normal -- MTV not bullets -- Trans form -- Welcome home from Vietnam, son -- Adventure without risk is Disneyland -- Plastics never disintegrate -- Await lightning -- Jan. 01, 2000.