عنوان

Generation X :

شابک

0349108390

شابک

9780349108391

شماره

b761220

عنوان اصلي

Generation X :

نام عام مواد

[Book]

ساير اطلاعات عنواني

tales for an accelerated culture /

نام نخستين پديدآور

Douglas Coupland.

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

London :

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Abacus,

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

1996, c1991.

نام خاص و کميت اثر

vi, 211 p. :

ساير جزييات

ill. ;

ابعاد

20 cm.

متن يادداشت

Generation X is Douglas Coupland's acclaimed salute to the generation born in the late 1950s and 1960s. Andy, Claire, and Dag, each in their twenties, have quit "pointless jobs done grudgingly to little applause" in their respective hometowns and cut themselves adrift in the California desert. In search of the drastic changes that will lend meaning to their lives, they've mired themselves in the detritus of American cultural memory. Refugees from history, the three develop 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 modern fables of love and death among the cosmetic surgery parlors and cocktail bars of Palm Springs, disturbingly funny tales of nuclear waste, historical overdosing, and mall culture. A dark snapshot of the trio's highly fortressed inner world quickly emerges--landscapes peopled with dead TV shows, "Elvis moments," and semi-disposable Swedish furniture. And from these landscapes, deeper portraits emerge, those of fanatically independent individuals, pathologically ambivalent about the future and brimming with unsatisfied longings for permanence, for love, and for their own home. Andy, Dag, and Claire are underemployed, overeducated, intensely private, and unpredictable. Like the group they mirror, they have nowhere to assuage their fears, and no culture to replace their anomie.

موضوع مستند نشده

Canadian fiction-- 20th century.

موضوع مستند نشده

18.07 English literature outside Europe and the USA.

موضوع مستند نشده

Belletristische Darstellung

موضوع مستند نشده

Canadian fiction.

موضوع مستند نشده

Canada.

بدون عنوان

7

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مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Coupland, Douglas.

تاريخ عمليات

20201204205348.0

نام الکترونيکي

نوع ماده

[Book]

تكميل شده

Y