{"product_id":"9780307357731","title":"Generation A","description":"“Now you young twerps want a new name for your generation? Probably not, you just  want jobs, right? Well, the media do us all such tremendous favors when they call  you Generation X, right? Two clicks from the very end of the alphabet. I hereby declare  you Generation A, as much at the beginning of a series of astonishing triumphs and  failures as Adam and Eve were so long ago.” \u003cbr\u003e — Kurt Vonnegut, Syracuse University  commencement address May 8, 1994\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eGeneration A\u003c\/i\u003e is a brilliant, timely and very Couplandesque novel  about honey bees and the world we may soon live in. Once again, Douglas Coupland  captures the spirit of a generation. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In the near future bees are extinct—until  one autumn when five people are stung in different places around the world. This  shared experience unites them in a way they never could have imagined.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eGeneration  A \u003c\/i\u003emirrors 1991’s \u003ci\u003eGeneration X\u003c\/i\u003e. It explores new ways of looking at the act of reading  and storytelling in a digital world. Like much of Coupland's writing, it occupies the perplexing hinterland between optimism about the future and everyday apocalyptic paranoia. Imaginative, inventive and fantastically entertaining, \u003ci\u003eGeneration A\u003c\/i\u003e demonstrates Coupland's unforgettable verve.","brand":"Douglas Coupland (CA)","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback Trade paperback (US)","offer_id":51565764837672,"sku":"9780307357731","price":21.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0976\/7482\/1928\/files\/BNCImageAPI_ce63da9c-9421-44dc-bb61-ce91530b4acd.jpg?v=1774130170","url":"https:\/\/hiddengembookco.ca\/products\/9780307357731","provider":"Hidden Gem Book Co","version":"1.0","type":"link"}