Binding: Paperback
Description: 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 Mc Jobs "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.
Title: Generation X Tales For An Accelerated Culture
Author(s): Coupland Douglas
Publisher: St. Martin's Publishing Group
Barcode: 9781250810779
Pages: 192 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 11/30/2021
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction