To The Last Page

Generation now From Bret Easton Ellis to Donna Tartt's Goldfinch , is there a movement in recent literature that is warning us of a new "lost generation"? Is this something we should be worried about, or is it something that has always been there, and part of the generational divide? From Salinger's Holden Caulfield - but probably even before then - the change to the modern world has undoubtedly caused emotional problems for lost youths looking for love and stability in their lives. If seen in that respect, Matt Szymanowski's Cupertino is probably nothing new, but there is a growing sense from this latest account that the modern lifestyle is indeed generating an increasingly dysfunctional society. In Cupertino  we are introduced to another young man who isn't exactly an orphan, but might as well be. Stevo and his friends are all about good times, enjoying life to the max - parties, girls, drink, drugs, porn and sometimes running into trouble with the authorit...