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Article: Book review: Generation A: A sting in the tales
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- The Scotsman
- Article date:
- August 29, 2009
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Generation A
by Douglas Coupland
Heinemann, 320pp, GBP 16.99
Seemingly random encounters with bees bring five people together
in a disconnected world
IN 1991, DOUGLAS COUPLAND'S novel Generation X burst like a
firecracker into the world of books. The author, not yet 30, had
written a kind of latterday Decameron about a group of
twentysomethings telling stories to one another in the California
desert.
In North American terms at least, he seemed to define a
generation. The phrases "Generation X" and "McJobs" slipped into
common parlance. Coupland was offered a fortune to become a
marketing consultant for Generation X-ers and later distanced
himself from the term because he felt it had been ...