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Generation X. Tales for an Accelerated Culture

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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.

Издательство: "Little, Brown and Company" (2017)

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Coupland, Douglas

▪ Canadian journalist and novelist
in full  Douglas Campbell Coupland 
born Dec. 30, 1961, Baden-Söllingen, Ger.

      Canadian journalist and novelist best known for observations on modern-day American culture and for popularizing the term Generation X.

      Coupland was born on a Canadian military base in Germany. His family relocated to Canada in the mid-1960s, and he grew up in Vancouver. In 1984 he went to art school to become a sculptor but then moved to Hawaii to study Japanese business science. After interning briefly at a company in Japan, he returned to Canada and began writing for a magazine based in Toronto.

      Coupland's first published novel, Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture (1991), describes the lives of three affluent, disaffected Californians in their 20s by way of a series of stories supplemented with cartoons and dictionary-style definitions of cultural buzzwords. The novel became widely popular, and its title was soon applied to the generation of Americans born during the 1960s and 1970s. His next novel, Shampoo Planet (1992), also centred on characters in their 20s. Life After God (1994) is an introspective collection of short stories about contemporary suburbanites. The novel Microserfs (1995) had its origins in an assignment for Wired magazine during which Coupland observed employees of Microsoft Corporation in Redmond, Wash., U.S. Microserfs was his fictional account of the experience; it highlighted workers' pursuit of meaning in a seemingly meaningless environment.

      Coupland released a collage of previously published photographs, essays, and short fiction as Polaroids from the Dead in 1996. In 1998 he published the novel Girlfriend in a Coma and, with Kip Ward, Lara's Book: Lara Croft and the Tomb Raider Phenomenon, an illustrated tribute to the popularity of the computer game Tomb Raider. Subsequent novels include Miss Wyoming (1999), Hey Nostradamus! (2003), JPod (2006), and The Gum Thief (2007). Coupland also wrote the screenplay for Everything's Gone Green (2006).

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Источник: Coupland, Douglas

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  • Generation X: Tales For An Accelerated Culture — Pour les articles homonymes, voir Generation X. Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture est un livre de Douglas Coupland paru en 1991. Dans ce roman, on suit Andy, Clair et Dag, trois personnages dans la « vingtaine » vivant à… …   Wikipédia en Français

  • Generation x: tales for an accelerated culture — Pour les articles homonymes, voir Generation X. Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture est un livre de Douglas Coupland paru en 1991. Dans ce roman, on suit Andy, Clair et Dag, trois personnages dans la « vingtaine » vivant à… …   Wikipédia en Français

  • Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture — Pour les articles homonymes, voir Generation X. Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture est un livre de Douglas Coupland paru en 1991. Dans ce roman, on suit Andy, Clair et Dag, trois personnages dans la « vingtaine » vivant à… …   Wikipédia en Français

  • Music for an Accelerated Culture — Studio album by Hadouken! Released 5 May 2008 (Physical) 24 A …   Wikipedia

  • Generation X — is a term used to describe generations in the United States and other countries born between the approximate years of 1965 to 1981, [http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1731528,00.html Gen X: The Ignored Generation? TIME ] ] the late… …   Wikipedia

  • Génération X — Pour les articles homonymes, voir Generation X. La Génération X désigne, selon la classification de William Strauss et Neil Howe, la génération sociologique des Occidentaux nés entre 1960 et 1979. Cette génération est intercalée entre celle des… …   Wikipédia en Français

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