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Gum Thief
(Hardcover, 2007)
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Author: Douglas Coupland
Roger Thorpe, the oldest employee at a Staples office supply store, is divorced, bitter, and seeming...
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Format: Hardcover
ISBN-10: 159691520X
ISBN-13: 9781596915206
Nov 2007
Publisher: Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA
288 pages
Language: English |
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Synopsis
Roger Thorpe, the oldest employee at a Staples office supply store, is divorced, bitter, and seemingly doomed to spend the rest of his days restocking the shelves with blank paper. In the eyes of Bethany Twain, his cynical Gothic co-worker, he's a persona non grata. However, when Bethany discovers his journal, which contains mock-diary entries of her own thoughts, the two begin an epistolary relationship in which they share their secret desires and most abject failures without ever talking to each other. Since GENERATION X cemented his reputation as literary voice for young disillusioned people in the postmodern world, Douglas Coupland has alternated between biting satires of corporate culture and heartfelt portraits of society's misfits and fringe dwellers. THE GUM THIEF lies towards the latter end of the spectrum, less of a MICROSERFS and more of an ELEANOR RIGBY. It's a funny, weird, and surprisingly moving tale, cleverly interspersed with fragments of Thorpe's unfinished novel, GLOVE POND.
| Size | | Length: | 288 pages | | Height: | 8.8 in | | Width: | 6.5 in | | Thickness: | 1.8 in | | Weight: | 28.0 oz |
Industry Reviews
"Coupland shines. The story is humorous, frenetic, focuses, and curiously affecting. A fine return to form." (starred review)
(06/18/2007)
"Like watching someone with multiple-personality disorder have a midlife crisis."
(07/15/2007)
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