by Douglas Coupland · Ediciones B · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788440659378
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«Generación X» is the novel by Douglas Coupland, published by Ediciones B in paperback (256 pages, in Spanish).
Three overeducated young people, fed up with consumerism and a futureless working world, leave their careers and settle in the California desert. There they earn a living with precarious jobs while telling stories that reveal their disillusionment, their humor, and their difficulty in finding a place of their own.
Translation by Mariano Antolín Rato; original published in 1991 as 'Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture'. This 1995 edition is no. 15 of the Biblioteca de Bolsillo.
For readers of contemporary fiction interested in the portrait of a generation and social criticism.
Douglas Coupland is a Canadian visual artist and writer. Trained originally as a sculptor, Coupland found unexpected success as a novelist with the publication of his 1991 international bestseller Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture, which popularized the terms Generation X and McJob. He has since gone on to publish dozens of books, including novels, short story collections, and essay collections. He has also worked as a columnist and contributor for a number of periodicals, including the New York Times, the Financial Times, the Guardian, and Wired Magazine.
