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Generation X: Tales of an Accelerated Culture
de Coupland, Douglas
- Usado
- near fine
- Tapa blanda
- Estado
- Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 1250810779
- ISBN 13
- 9781250810779
- Librería
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Webster, New York, United States
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Sobre este artículo
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1991. Second Edition. Large Softcover. Near Fine. 6x0x9. Second edition. Corners of wrapper lightly worn. 1991 Large Softcover. vi, 183 pp. 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 McJobs―"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.
Sinopsis
Andy, Dag and Claire have been handed a society beyond their means. Twentysomethings, brought up with divorce, Watergate and Three Mile Island, and scarred by the 80s fallout 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 in no future McJobs in the service industry. Underemployed, overeducated and intensely private and unpredicatable, 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-disposible Swedish furniture.
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- Librería
- Yesterday's Muse Books
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 2322316
- Título
- Generation X: Tales of an Accelerated Culture
- Autor
- Coupland, Douglas
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Large Softcover
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Near Fine
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- Second Edition
- Encuadernación
- Tapa blanda
- ISBN 10
- 1250810779
- ISBN 13
- 9781250810779
- Editorial
- St. Martin's Press
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 1991
- Tamaño
- 6x0x9
- Palabras clave
- GENERATION X CONTEMPORARY FICTION
- X weight
- 12 oz
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