Douglas Coupland

Generation X

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.

Tales for an Accelerated Culture

Colton Ray

Not as good as I was hoping, unfortunately. The writing was good, but the book was overall criminally boring.

Trever

4.5. Did you like  Less Than Zero but want something with characters who are, like, humans? Read this one. Do you want a version of  The Catcher in the Rye with older people in more modern times in the desert of California? Read this one.

I'm surprised by how much I enjoyed this one because I'd been led to believe it didn't age well, but I liked it and I'm a millennial, so idk what that says about this. If you want to read a coming-of-age story that's emblematic of the culture in North America circa 1990, read this. If you don't, don't read this because it'll probably piss you off or something.

Alisa

3.5/5
Aimless and a little slow at times, but also unexpectedly enchanting and entirely readable.

Eugenia Andino

Extremely disappointing; a book that wants to be clever, and which only became famous, I think, because a journalist thought that it "spoke for a generation". Bleh. Characters who live boring and pointless lives, in a boring and pointless book.

Helen Bright

A. D. Knapp

Generation A is set in the near future in a world where bees are extinct, until five unconnected people all around the world— in the United States, Canada, France, New Zealand, and Sri Lanka—are all stung. Their shared experience unites them in ways they never could have imagined. Generation A mirrors Coupland’s debut novel, 1991’s Generation X. It explores new ways of storytelling in a digital world. Like much of Coupland’s writing, it occupies the perplexing hinterland between optimism about the future and everyday apocalyptic paranoia. Imaginative, inventive, and fantastically entertaining, Generation A is his most ambitious work to date.

A Novel

Generation A

Steve Parks

Jayme Cochrane

Jerry Eakes

In the near future bees are believed to be extinct until one autumn when five people are stung in different places around the world. This shared experience unites them in a way they could never have imagined.

Ellen Watters

edith w.

Katrina

Phil Sheard

Neta Steingart

Génération X

OLIVIER VALETTE

Ture Strange Nilsson

Ellen Chisa

Set in the near future world where all bees are extinct when 5 unconnected people from varying parts of world are each stung. Their experience unites them in ways they could not have imagined.

Generation X

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