The snarling citizen
Subtitle: essays
By: Barbara Ehrenreich.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 1995
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 245
Subjects: Popular culture -- United States; United States -- Social conditions -- 1980-
Description: In this collection of essays, her first since the best-selling The Worst Years of Our Lives, Barbara Ehrenreich delves into the soul of the 1990s in search of the American zeitgeist after "The Decade of Greed.".

What she finds is a sour passivity. Only a homicidal car-rental spokesman or penis-severing small-town manicurist can induce a brief outbreak of giddiness. The youthful, pumped-up look has given way to menopause chic, and our biggest hope for a national health program is that it will provide coverage for Dr. Jack Kevorkian's services. Even channel surfing may have to be automated soon if the current listlessness continues.