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Douglas Coupland

Shampoo Planet, 2002

Book , 19.6 x 12.9 cm, 282 p., language : English, publisher : Scribner (Simon & Schuster UK Ltd), London, first published in 1993
Ink, paper

Literary synopsis

Shampoo Planet is the rich and dazzling point where two worlds collide - those of 1960s parents and their 1990s offspring, "Global Teens," the generation after Generation X. Tyler Johnson is a twenty-year-old MTV child. Once a baby raised in a hippie commune, he now sells fake Chanel T-shirts, collects shampoo and studies hotel/motel management in a small northwest city saddled with a dying mega-mall and a collapsed nuclear industry. An ambitious Reagan Youth, Tyler dreams of escape and a career with the corporation whose offices his mother once firebombed.

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