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Shampoo Planet

Douglas Coupland

Paperback 1993-08-04

Publisher 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 comput

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Publisher 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 comput

Koorong Code110724
ISBN0671755064
EAN9780671755065
Pages312
DepartmentAcademic
CategoryChurch
Sub-CategoryChurch Life & Issues
PublisherSimon & Schuster
Publication DateAug 1993
Dimensions22 x 139 x 210mm
Weight0.273kg