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Generation-X
by Douglas Coupland
From the back cover
"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 lost 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; in Palm Springs, land of the liposuction clinic and the shopping mall, dumping-ground for the dregs of American cultural memory.
Unsure of their futures, they immerse themselves in a regime of heavy drinking and working at McJobs - 'low-pay, low-prestige, low-benefit, no-future jobs 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 ot replace their anomie. So they tell stories: disturbing funny tales that reveal their barricaded inner world. A world populated with dead TV shows, "Elvis moments' and semi-disposable Swedish furniture..."
"Riotous...truly a modern-day 'Catcher in the Rye'" COSMOPOLITAN
SOFT COVER, used, excellent condition (the previous owner's name was written on the front page, but this has been tippexed out).
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