Shampoo Planet
 

Shampoo Planet: Shampoo Planet

by Douglas Coupland

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... (read more)

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mikel
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After the sensation of Generation X, Coupland had a lot to live up to. Luckily, in both Life After God and Shampoo Planet, he more than delivered on his promise. A lot of people still think Coupland was always more hype than talent - those people haven't read this novel.

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