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Generation x douglas coupland sparknotes5/30/2023 ![]() ![]() “They would say, ‘Oh Doug, you are just off on that weird high horse,’ ” he said. When Coupland would talk about his work in progress, people didn’t know what he was talking about. Two years ago, Generation X was still the demographic equivalent of the muffled sounds of someone trying to escape a locked trunk. Two years ago, when Coupland began the novel, the flow of now-familiar solipsistic essays by young, ironic writers explaining to the world who “we” are and why “we” are so misunderstood was barely a trickle. ![]() To Generation X, the older baby boomers have already taken all the good stuff-the good jobs, the good real estate, the good luck. Whatever the nickname, it is a post-’80s generation of young adults that has been handed not just an empty platter but a platter empty of possibilities. Sometimes it is called the lost generation sometimes the baby busters. Martin’s, $12.95) is Coupland’s first novel, a succinct and groundbreaking portrait of that increasingly spotlighted, embittered group born between 19. “Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture” (St. ![]()
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