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Generation A. (INSCRIBED)
by DOUGLAS COUPLAND
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- Hardcover
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- first
- Condition
- Fine/Near Fine
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About This Item
Heinemann, London, 2009. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Inscribed by Author(s). Second impression of the first edition, issued the same year as the first impression. This copy inscribed by the author on the title page and dated the year of publication. 8vo. 297pp. Yellow boards lettered in black at the spine. A fine copy in virtually fine non-price-clipped dust wrapper, marred only by a single minute tear to the base of the front wrapper flap. The author's thirteenth novel, mirroring the style and structure of his celebrated debut 'Generation X' (1991)..
Synopsis
In the near future bees are extinct - until five unconnected individuals, in different parts of the wowrld, are stung. Immediately snatched up by ominous figures in hazmat suits, interrogated searately in neutral Ikea-like chambers, and then released as 15-minute-celebrities into a world driven almost entirely by the internet, these five unforgettable people endure a barrage of unusual and highly 21st-century circumstances. A charismatic scientist with dubious motives eventually brings the quintet together, and their shared experience unites them in a way they could never have imagined.Generation A mirrors the structure of 1991's Generation X as it champions the act of reading and storytelling as one of the few defences we still have against the constant bombardment of the senses in a digital world. Like much of Coupland's writing, it occupies the perplexing hinterland between optimism about the future and everyday, apocalyptic paranoia, and is his most ambitious and entertaining novel to date.
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- Clearwater Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- BC12674
- Title
- Generation A. (INSCRIBED)
- Author
- DOUGLAS COUPLAND
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Publisher
- Heinemann, London
- Date Published
- 2009
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