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Humor Essays

Boomerville

Musings on a Generation that Refuses to Go Quietly

by (author) Rosa Harris

introduction by Douglas Coupland

Publisher
Manor House Publishing Inc
Initial publish date
Jun 2017
Category
Essays, Relationships, Political
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781988058009
    Publish Date
    Jun 2017
    List Price
    $24.95

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Description

I've known Rosa Harris for 25 years, starting when she worked at a city magazine in Montreal. It was in the final few months before Generation X was published and there was no awareness in the culture that something, anything, might want to cleave away from the baby boomer's stranglehold on all things generational… She's one of the few boomers who is fully aware of just how annoying and self—absorbed her generation really is… fully aware of the historical forces that had to align to create the most… narcissistic birth cohort in the history of our planet, yet she can really tap into this awareness to create something sensitive and smile—inducing. I think you'll enjoy this book.
— Douglas Coupland, author, Generation X

About the authors

Rosa Harris' profile page

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Douglas Coupland was born on a Canadian NATO base in Germany and raised in Vancouver, where he still resides. Among his best-selling novels are Generation X, Shampoo Planet, Polaroids From The Dead, Microserfs, Miss Wyoming, Hey Nostradamus! and Eleanor Rigby, altogether in print in some 40 countries. Coupland also exhibits his sculpture in galleries around the world, indulging in design experiments that include everything from launching collections of furniture to futurological consulting for Stephen Spielberg.

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Douglas Coupland's profile page

Editorial Reviews

"Rosa Harris has assembled a series of very thought—provoking apercus of her times and generation. They are all from different angles and none is ponderous or over—long. The result is a very pleasing, very easy, and often poignant, read."
-- Conrad Black