Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 0060392509 ISBN 13: 9780060392505

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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 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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Review:

"A groundbreaking novel."--"The Los Angeles Times
"Captures the listlessness that accompanies growing up in today's info-laden culture."--"Rolling Stone
"Amusingly explores the more restless and disaffected segment of the under-30 crowd."--"Cleveland Plain Dealer
"A readable and valid account of a generation that envisions a completely new genuine genre of bohemianism."--"San Francisco Chronicle
"A groundbreaking novel."--"The Los Angeles Times"
"Captures the listlessness that accompanies growing up in today's info-laden culture."--"Rolling Stone"
"Amusingly explores the more restless and disaffected segment of the under-30 crowd."--"Cleveland Plain Dealer"
"A readable and valid account of a generation that envisions a completely new genuine genre of bohemianism."--"San Francisco Chronicle"

A groundbreaking novel. "The Los Angeles Times"

Captures the listlessness that accompanies growing up in today's info-laden culture. "Rolling Stone"

Amusingly explores the more restless and disaffected segment of the under-30 crowd. "Cleveland Plain Dealer"

A readable and valid account of a generation that envisions a completely new genuine genre of bohemianism. "San Francisco Chronicle""

"A groundbreaking novel." --The Los Angeles Times

"Captures the listlessness that accompanies growing up in today's info-laden culture." --Rolling Stone

"Amusingly explores the more restless and disaffected segment of the under-30 crowd." --Cleveland Plain Dealer

"A readable and valid account of a generation that envisions a completely new genuine genre of bohemianism." --San Francisco Chronicle

Book Description:

The book that defined an era: the seminal tale of disillusioned youth, Generation X is being reissued with a new cover alongside other classic titles from the Abacus list in our 40th Anniversary year

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• ISBN 10: 0060392509
• ISBN 13: 9780060392505
• Rilegatura: Hardcover