Full name: Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture

Author: Douglas Coupland Year: 1991 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Contemporary, Short Stories, Mystery Culture: Canada Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Barns&Noble Amazon LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780349108391 9780312054366 0349108390 031205436X

Andy, Dag and Claire have been handed a society priced beyond their means. Twentysomethings, brought up with divorce, Watergate and Three Mile Island, and scarred by the 80s fall-out of yuppies, recession, crack and Ronald Reagan, they represent the new generation - Generation X. Fiercely suspicious of being lumped together as an advertiser's target market, they have quit dreary careers and cut themselves adrift in the California desert. Unsure of their futures, they immerse themselves in a regime of heavy drinking and working at no-future McJobs in the service industry. Underemployed, overeducated, intensely private and unpredictable, they have nowhere to direct their anger, no one to assuage their fears, and no culture to replace their anomie. So they tell stories; disturbingly funny tales that reveal their barricaded inner world. A world populated with dead TV shows, 'Elvis moments' and semi-disposable Swedish furniture... Similar books: Shampoo Planet by Douglas Coupland Miss Wyoming by Douglas Coupland Girlfriend in a Coma by Douglas Coupland Eleanor Rigby by Douglas Coupland Hey Nostradamus! by Douglas Coupland The Gum Thief by Douglas Coupland All Families Are Psychotic by Douglas Coupland The Broom of the System by David Foster Wallace Beautiful Losers by Leonard Cohen The Fourth Hand by John Irving Cunning Man by Robertson Davies Life Before Man by Margaret Atwood The Mezzanine by Nicholson Baker Lady Oracle by Margaret Atwood A Mixture of Frailties by Robertson Davies Life After God by Douglas Coupland Not the End of the World by Kate Atkinson Faithless by Joyce Carol Oates Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri Oracle Night by Paul Auster