Douglas Coupland
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English - March 07, 2010 16:00 - 27 minutes - 25.4 MB - ★★★★ - 208 ratingsSociety & Culture books culture news productivity health business entrepreneurship interview comedy politics Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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James Naughtie and readers talk to Canadian author Douglas Coupland about his cult novel Generation X.
First published in 1991, it became a worldwide bestseller and defined a generation. Set during a time of yuppies and youth unemployment, the characters in Generation X are all in their late 20s, highly educated but with no ambition - they work in bars, and tell each other stories. This is the novel that made 'McJob' a popular term; and looking back at the novel Douglas speaks movingly of his own struggle as he set out to be a writer.