num_pages: 320
description: Now you young twerps want a new name for your generation? Probably not you just want jobs right? Well the media do us all such tremendous favors when they call you Generation X right? Two clicks from the very end of the alphabet. I hereby declare you Generation A as much at the beginning of a series of astonishing triumphs and failures as Adam and Eve were so long ago. Kurt Vonnegut Syracuse University commencement address May 8 1994A brilliant timely and very Couplandesque novel about honey bees and the world we may soon live in. Once again Douglas Coupland captures the spirit of a generation.In the near future bees are extinct  until one autumn when five people are stung in different places around the world. This shared experience unites them in a way they never could have imagined.Generation A mirrors 1991s Generation X . It explores new ways of looking at the act of reading and storytelling in a digital world.
language: English
title: Generation A
publisher: Random House Canada