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X Saves the World: How Generation X Got the Shaft But Can Still Keep Everything from Sucking Paperback - 2009
by Jeff Gordinier
Taking off from his controversial "Details" essay Has Generation X Already Peaked? Gordinier conducts an eye-opening journey in his quest to find the essence of X.
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In this simultaneously hilarious and incisive "manifesto for a generation that's never had much use for manifestos," Gordinier suggests that for the first time since the "Smells Like Teen Spirit"breakthrough of the early 1990s, Gen X has what it takes to rescue American culture from a state of collapse. Over the past twenty years, the so-called "slackers"have irrevocably changed countless elements of our culture-from the way we watch movies to the way we make sense of a cracked political process to the way the whole world does business.
In this simultaneously hilarious and incisive "manifesto for a generation that's never had much use for manifestos," Gordinier suggests that for the first time since the "Smells Like Teen Spirit"breakthrough of the early 1990s, Gen X has what it takes to rescue American culture from a state of collapse. Over the past twenty years, the so-called "slackers"have irrevocably changed countless elements of our culture-from the way we watch movies to the way we make sense of a cracked political process to the way the whole world does business.
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- Title X Saves the World: How Generation X Got the Shaft But Can Still Keep Everything from Sucking
- Author Jeff Gordinier
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 224
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Books, New York
- Date 2009-01-27
- ISBN 9780143115151 / 0143115154
- Weight 0.41 lbs (0.19 kg)
- Dimensions 7.74 x 5.05 x 0.59 in (19.66 x 12.83 x 1.50 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Dewey Decimal Code 305.209
Media reviews
"I loved this book. . . . It's impassioned, very quick on its feet, dense with all the right allusions, funny, and in the end actually very moving."
-Nick Hornby
"Ever wonder what became of Generation X, those ironic slackers wedged between the paunchy, tie-dyed boomers and their smug offspring, the millennials? Gordinier's first-person manifesto starts with a thumbnail sketch of '90s disillusionment and ends with a passionate call for social activism."
-Wired
-Nick Hornby
"Ever wonder what became of Generation X, those ironic slackers wedged between the paunchy, tie-dyed boomers and their smug offspring, the millennials? Gordinier's first-person manifesto starts with a thumbnail sketch of '90s disillusionment and ends with a passionate call for social activism."
-Wired
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