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Generation X : Tales for an Accelerated Culture
Generation X Tales for an Accelerated Culture
Author: Douglas Coupland
Generation X is Douglas Coupland's acclaimed salute to the generation born in the late 1950s and 1960s--a generation known vaguely up to then as "twentysomething." — Andy, Claire, and Dag, each in their twenties, have quit "pointless jobs done grudgingly to little applause" in their respective hometowns and cut themselves adrift on the Cal...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780312054366
ISBN-10: 031205436X
Publication Date: 3/15/1991
Pages: 192
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3.5 stars, based on 84 ratings
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
Members Wishing: 2
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Douglas Coupland's first novel. Serves as a good introduction to his style of writing. Other novels in a similar style include Microserfs and JPOD.
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You can recognize some off-the-beaten-track places in and around Palm Springs that he mentions in the book (alas, they re-landscaped the Braille institute a couple of years ago so that they don't have a cactus garden any more).


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