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Generation A by Douglas Coupland (Knopf $32.95)
With honey bees almost extinct, Douglas Coupland's Generation A starts when five people around the world are stung simultaneously. As a deliberate reflection of his famous first book, Generation X, Coupland's slightly futuristic novel takes its title from comments made by Kurt Vonnegut at a Syracuse commencement ceremony in 1994, "Now you young twerps want a new name for your generation? Probably not, you just want jobs, right? Well, the media do us all such tremendous favours when they call you Generation X, right? Two clicks from the very end of the alphabet. I hereby declare you Generation A, as much at the beginning of a series of astonishing triumphs and failures as Adam and Eve were so long ago.";
978-0-307-35772-4
[BCBW2009]
With honey bees almost extinct, Douglas Coupland's Generation A starts when five people around the world are stung simultaneously. As a deliberate reflection of his famous first book, Generation X, Coupland's slightly futuristic novel takes its title from comments made by Kurt Vonnegut at a Syracuse commencement ceremony in 1994, "Now you young twerps want a new name for your generation? Probably not, you just want jobs, right? Well, the media do us all such tremendous favours when they call you Generation X, right? Two clicks from the very end of the alphabet. I hereby declare you Generation A, as much at the beginning of a series of astonishing triumphs and failures as Adam and Eve were so long ago.";
978-0-307-35772-4
[BCBW2009]
Submitted on September 3, 2009 in By David.
