Generation X
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Long before the term became a cultural shorthand for disaffected youth, Generation X — the original sociological study by Charles Hamblett and Jane Deverson — captured the raw, unfiltered voices of British teenagers in the early 1960s, a generation defined by restlessness, rebellion, and a profound rejection of the values their parents held dear. Commissioned initially as a research project, the book chronicles the attitudes of young people who confessed to having no faith in religion, no reverence for authority, and no clear aim in life — a portrait that shocked contemporary society and reverberated across decades of cultural commentary. Hamblett and Deverson present their findings not through the detached lens of academia, but with a journalistic immediacy that gives the text an urgency still palpable today; the collaged typography of its iconic cover — fragments of phrases like Religion is a load of... and Depression screaming from a black background — mirrors the fractured consciousness of the generation it documents. This groundbreaking work of social reportage stands as a foundational document of post-war British youth culture, its influence stretching all the way to Douglas Coupland, who borrowed its title for his own landmark 1991 novel. Who, then, truly owns the identity of a generation that never wanted to be named?
Author: Charles Hamblett And Jane Deverson
Format: Paperback
Genre: Society & culture
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Long before the term became a cultural shorthand for disaffected youth, Generation X — the original sociological study by Charles Hamblett and Jane Deverson — captured the raw, unfiltered voices of British teenagers in the early 1960s, a generation defined by restlessness, rebellion, and a profound rejection of the values their parents held dear. Commissioned initially as a research project, the book chronicles the attitudes of young people who confessed to having no faith in religion, no reverence for authority, and no clear aim in life — a portrait that shocked contemporary society and reverberated across decades of cultural commentary. Hamblett and Deverson present their findings not through the detached lens of academia, but with a journalistic immediacy that gives the text an urgency still palpable today; the collaged typography of its iconic cover — fragments of phrases like Religion is a load of... and Depression screaming from a black background — mirrors the fractured consciousness of the generation it documents. This groundbreaking work of social reportage stands as a foundational document of post-war British youth culture, its influence stretching all the way to Douglas Coupland, who borrowed its title for his own landmark 1991 novel. Who, then, truly owns the identity of a generation that never wanted to be named?