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Generation X
by Coupland, Douglas
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- Paperback
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- ISBN 10
- 9174997076
- ISBN 13
- 9789174997071
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About This Item
Softcover with flaps. Publisher: Modernista | Utg. 2017 | Softcover with flaps | 175 p. | This book is brand new. | Original title: Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture | Translator: Frick, Johan | Language: Svenska --- Information regarding the book: Romanen som definierade den ironiska generationen Andy, Dag och Claire har inte tillräckliga resurser för kostnaderna i det samhälle de fötts i. De är i tjugoårsåldern, uppvuxna med skilsmässa, Watergate och kärnkraftsolyckan på Three Mile Island. Präglade av åttiotalsfenomen - yuppies, lågkonjunktur, crack och Ronald Reagan - representerar de den nya generationen: Generation X. Men de vägrar ställa upp som målgrupp för smarta marknadsförare, har sagt upp sig från sina meningslösa och otacksamma jobb och dragit i väg till Kaliforniens öken. Där dricker de, försörjer sig på ströjobb, och berättar humoristiska och oroande sagor för varandra om en värld av popkultur, gamla TV-serier och svensk slit-och-släng-design. Fram växer lysande porträtt av fanatiskt oberoende individer, patologiskt ambivalenta inför framtiden och fulla av otillfredsställd längtan efter någonting bestående. I översättning av Johan Frick. Omslagsbilden visar Douglas Couplands skulptur Optimism vs. Pessimism (2014). DOUGLAS COUPLAND [född 1961] är en kanadensisk författare och konstnär. Han debuterade 1991 med den omedelbart kultförklarade Generation X. Senare har han gett ut bland annat Microslavar [Microserfs, 1995], Girlfriend in a Coma [1998] och jPod [2006]. | We have this book in our store house - please allow for a couple of extra days for delivery.
Synopsis
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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- h:strom - Text & Kultur AB / Antikvariat & Bokhandel
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- Title
- Generation X
- Author
- Coupland, Douglas
- Format/Binding
- Softcover with flaps
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 9174997076
- ISBN 13
- 9789174997071
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