num_pages: 211
description: Andy, Dag and Claire have been handed a society priced beyond their means. Twentysomethings, brought up with divorce, Watergate and Three Mile Island, and scarred by the 80s fall-out 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 at no-future McJobs in the service industry.Underemployed, overeducated, intensely private and unpredictable, 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-disposable Swedish furniture...
language: English
title: Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture
titlecomplete: Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture
genres: 20th Century, Canada, Short Stories, American, Literary Fiction, Novels, Literature, Classics, Fiction, Contemporary
ratings_count: 28502
places: Coachella Valley
publisher: Abacus