SHAMPOO PLANET by Douglas Coupland

Shampoo Planet is the rich and dazzling point where two worlds collide - those of the 1960s parents and their 1990s offspring, "Global Teens", the generation after Generation X.

Tyler Johnson is a 22-year-old MTV child.  Once a baby raised in a hippie commune, he now sells fake Chanel T-shirts, collects shampoo and studies hotel/motel management in a small north-west city saddled with a dying mega-mall and a collapsed nuclear industry.  An ambitious Reagan Youth, Tyler dreams of escape and a career with the corporation whose offices his mother once firebombed.

Tyler's soon-to-be-single mother is the fortysomething Jasmine, a 'hippie chick' with a Woodstock heart full of love - but also full of confusion because her 1960s dream has turned sour.  Burdened with two failed marriages, three kids at home, and job layoffs, Jasmine wonders if the 1960s dream alone can protect her from the 1990s.

It's a life...until two figures with secret agendas - Tyler's yuppie-land-developer stepfather, Dan, and 'Princess Stephanie', his summer fling from Europe - emerge, unleashing Tyler on a dizzying journey into the contemporary cultural psyche, a voyage full of rock videos, toxic waste, fatherlessness, celebrity detox centers, french-fry computers, quack get-rich-quick cat food schemes, clearcut forests and much, much more.

Soft cover, very good condition.  300 pages, all intact.