Generation X - by Douglas Coupland (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Generation X is a field guide to and for the vast generation born in the late 1950s and the 1960s--a generation that has been erroneously labelled "postponed" and "indifferent". This is facto-fiction about a wildly accelerating subculture waiting in the corridor.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><i>Generation X </i>is Douglas Coupland's classic novel about the generation born from 1960 to 1978 --a generation known until then simply as twenty somethings. <p/>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.<br>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. <p/>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.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>"A groundbreaking novel." --<i>The Los Angeles Times</i> <p/>"Captures the listlessness that accompanies growing up in today's info-laden culture." --<i>Rolling Stone</i> <p/>"Amusingly explores the more restless and disaffected segment of the under-30 crowd." --<i>Cleveland Plain Dealer</i> <p/>"A readable and valid account of a generation that envisions a completely new genuine genre of bohemianism." --<i>San Francisco Chronicle</i></p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Douglas Coupland</b> was born on the 4-Wing Canadian Armed Forces Base in Baden-Söllingen, Germany in 1961. He is the author of <i>Miss Wyoming, Generation X</i>, <i>All Families are Psychotic, </i>and <i>Girlfriend in a Coma</i>, among others. He attended the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design and is an Officer of the Order of Canada and a Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. www.coupland.com.
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