Generation Dementia, by Michael Hartnett
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They line up in Frick Village to get on the garbage truck: the disoriented, the suicidal, the desperate, even the kid who won't look up from her cell phone. They are Generation Dementia, high school seniors who have lost their bearings. When a video made about the troubled teens on the garbage truck goes viral, the reality TV crews come around to repackage Generation Dementia and the trash they haul. Narrator Hash O'Connell rebels against this makeover and soon finds he and his friends are confronted with a darker underside of both his community and the cameras now framing it. Hash unearths disturbing secrets about twenty years of lost trash and the lurid tales buried with that refuse. Ultimately, Hash encounters the corruptions off Frick's past, revelations that will transform his understanding of his family's legacy and allow him to emerge from the rubble he has inherited.
Generation Dementia, by Michael Hartnett- Amazon Sales Rank: #1908717 in Books
- Published on: 2015-09-24
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.00" h x .78" w x 6.00" l, 1.01 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 342 pages
Review To understand today's teenagers, connected yet alienated, busy yet seemingly unproductive, read the imaginative book whose title demographers will use to describe the age: Generation Dementia. Hartnett's satirical but compassionate novel follows its grieving, empty teenage hero through a wasteland of family, social, and political problems. You'll love the ride of this funny and fast-paced story about the conflicts faced by Hash O'Connell and his friends as they travel by garbage truck through reality and virtual reality. - Joseph Gansrow, author of Deconstructing and Reconstructing Sentences In Generation Dementia Michael Hartnett takes readers through the suburban streets of Frick, a village that replaced its traditional garbage men with high school students. One ragtag teen trio - a loner who collects garbage, another who hauls away anything not nailed down and a female violinist - become reality TV stars in a culture where students are over-programmed, over-scheduled and out of touch. Hartnett artfully shows us the only truly non-disposable thing in our society is our garbage. It's an enjoyable and perceptive read from beginning to end.- Alfred P. Doblin, The Record, New Jersey
From the Author I have spent a fair share of time with garbage. I have also witnessed teenagers sitting in a circle, ignoring each other, texting madly on the phone. Generation Dementia joins these two experiences. When the narrator Hash finds 5 1/4-inch floppy disks on the curb of the recently deceased Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Levon Gallagher, he understands that the stories on the disks might well reveal much not only about the technologies of the past forty years, but about his own family. Ultimately, much is buried in the garbage dumps and even more is floating up in the virtual clouds. I had great fun novel writing the novel.
About the Author Michael Hartnett, a writer and teacher who lives on on Long Island, has spent his fair share of time with garbage. He is also author of the novels Universal Remote and The Great SAT Swindle.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful. want desperately to get into a good college. Like Chabon By Michael Kramer Hartnett knows suburbia and he knows teenagers – knows how they speak, carry I-Phones obsessively, want desperately to get into a good college. Like Chabon , Updike, and Irving’s characters, the teenagers in Generation Dementia are aware and oblivious, careful and reckless, motivated and feckless, yet always reaching for their piece of the American Dream. Hartnett reminds us of what we need to hold onto, and what we are throwing away.A thoroughly enjoyable read!
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. Read it on its surface as an excellent story or dig deeper to find meaning in our ... By James F. Ruppel A revealing book of our times; one I'm sure to be re-reading again and again to get all the depth and meaning Mr. Hartnet packs into a seemingly simple, engaging tale. This is a novel that captures you with its fascinating characters and intriguing plot and pulls you into their lives and makes you care deeply about their lives, their actions and their motivations. Hartnet's commentary on the alienation of our digitally connected society and how our trash is both deeply private, yet unifying is inspired. Read it on its surface as an excellent story or dig deeper to find meaning in our present day culture, or both. This is a book that keeps on giving, long after you close it's cover.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. A terrific novel about garbage? Who would have thought it? By Anthony Paladini Get ready for some real trash talk.Mr. Hartnett takes us deep into the world of garbage, and it has never smelled so sweet. Hartnett presents a wonderfully diverse group of characterswho become involved in situations both absurd and touching. The novel moves along at a comfortable pace and the twists and turns will keep you wondering, questioning, and finally understanding. There are some true laugh-out-loud situations, and Mr. Hartnett 's command of language and expressions help drive this delightful tale towards a different outcome then one might have expected."Generation Dementia" is the most enjoyable book I have read in some time.
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