Shampoo Planet
An amazing visionary first novel about today's disenfranchised, MTV twenty-something generation and their baby boom parents, by the author of the hugely successful Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture--a Tom Robbins for the '90s who has made the cynical post-Reagan era his own. A...
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An amazing visionary first novel about today's disenfranchised, MTV twenty-something generation and their baby boom parents, by the author of the hugely successful Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture--a Tom Robbins for the '90s who has made the cynical post-Reagan era his own. A 20-year-old's journey around America, Canada, and Paris helps him deal with the bewildering influences that confront him.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780671755058 (0671755056)
Publish date: September 1st 1992
Publisher: Atria Books
Pages no: 304
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
Humor,
Comedy,
Literature,
Cultural,
Adult Fiction,
American,
Literary Fiction,
Contemporary,
Modern,
Canada
I found it very difficult to relate to the protagonist of this, Coupland's second novel. He leaves his dying town in the desert region of Washington State for a summer of rail travel round Europe and cheats on his girlfriend. He returns to Terminaldeclineville (I fail to remember the name Coupland a...
I loved the "global teens" just as much at the Gen X before them.
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