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Shampoo Planet

By Douglas Coupland

Book information

Publisher
Washington Square Press
Year
1993
ISBN
0671755064, 9780671755065
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
499 kB (510555 bytes)
Pages
312\136
Topic
Literature Prose
Time added
2011-04-20 14:05:05
Библиотека;Зарубежная литература;На английском язы

Description

Shampoo Planet is the rich and dazzling point where two worlds collide -- those of 1960s parents and their 1990s offspring, ''Global Teens.'' Raised in a hippie commune, Tyler Johnson is an ambitious twenty-year-old Reagan youth, living in a decaying northwest city and aspiring to a career with the corporation whose offices his mother once firebombed. This six-month chronicle of Tyler's life takes us to Paris and the ongoing party beside Jim Morrison's grave, to a wild island in British Columbia, the freak-filled redwood forests of northern California, a cheesy Hollywood, ultra-modern Seattle, and finally back home. On the way we meet a constellation of characters, among them: Jasmine, Tyler's Woodstock mom; Dan, his land-developer stepfather; ''Princess Stephanie,'' Tyler's European summer fling; and Anna Louise, his post-feminist girlfriend with an eating disorder. Tyler's dizzying journey into the contemporary psyche -- a voyage full of rock videos, toxic waste, french-fry computers, and clear-cut forests -- is a spellbinding signature novel for a generation coming of age as the millennium comes to a close.

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