BOOK REVIEW: Generation A

Posted November 16th, 2009 by Joshua Chaplinsky

Douglas Coupland re-imagines storytelling yet again with this spiritual successor to his bestselling debut, Generation X

Review by: Joshua Chaplinsky
"Generation A" by Doulgas Coupland

It’s been almost twenty years (!) since a young Canuck named Douglas Coupland burst onto the literary scene with a full head of hair and his caustic wit, and although his pate bears witness to the ravages of time, his observations are no less sharp.

Much in the way he updated Mircroserfs for the internet age with Jpod, Coupland updates the plight of the disassociated twenty-something with Generation A. Resetting the alphabet back to A (with a little posthumous help from Kurt Vonnegut) Coupland weaves a tale of the near future in which bees are extinct and broadcasting your story to the world only serves to make you less unique.

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