Worst. Person. Ever.
$28.51
- Paperback
336 pages
- Release Date
1 December 2014
Summary
A razor-sharp portrait of a morally bankrupt and gleefully wicked modern man, Worst. Person. Ever. is Douglas Coupland’s gloriously filthy, side-splittingly funny and unforgettable new novel.
Meet Raymond Gunt. A decent chap who tries to do the right thing. Or, to put it another way, the worst person ever- a foul-mouthed, misanthropic cameraman, trailing creditors, ex-wives and unhappy homeless people in his wake. Men dislike him, women flee from him.
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Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099537397 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0099537397 |
| Author: | Douglas Coupland |
| Publisher: | Cornerstone |
| Imprint: | Windmill Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 1 December 2014 |
| Weight: | 134g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 130mm x 20mm |
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Critics Review
An outrageous comic riot, delivered as a tear-inducing funny and pitch-black farce … For every laugh here, there’s a haunting, echoing scream in the distance. The plot is unbridled romp … It is hard to describe, out of context, quite how funny Coupland’s novel can be. * Sunday Times *
Worst. Person. Ever. is very much a return to form. It had me laughing out loud on the bus to work. * Irish Times, Books of the Year *
There are gloriously unquotable remarks and fantastically lurid images on every page. Gunt’s mind is a super-sewer in which it is a pleasure to swim. You can’t help giggling, constantly. Worst. Person. Ever. may be a raging bonfire of inanities but it contains some of Coupland’s finest writing since Shampoo Planet. * Evening Standard *
There are some clever plot twists and fine comedy set pieces. * Scotland on Sunday *
A comic riot of a novel. * Sunday Times - Must Reads *
Worst. Person. Ever. succeeds by virtue of its verbal energy, the brio of its invention, the snappiness with which successive gags and ever more appalling atrocities are piled on. * Financial Times *
Coupland has penned a bitterly funny tale of our time and created one of the grossest characters to deliver it. * Sport *
Worst. Person. Ever., challenges the present-day with excess, satire, and biting critique * Dazed Digital *
About The Author
Douglas Coupland
Douglas Coupland (pronounced KOHP-lend) (born 30 December 1961) is a Canadian writer, designer and visual artist. His first novel was the 1991 international bestseller Generation X- Tales for an Accelerated Culture. Since then, Coupland has written twelve more novels, which have been published in most languages. He has written and performed for the Royal Shakespeare Company and is a columnist for the Financial Times. He is a frequent contributor to the New York Times, e-flux, Dis and Vice. In 2000, after a decade of generating web graphics, Coupland amplified his visual art production and has recently had two separate museum retrospectives- ‘Everywhere Is Anywhere Is Anything Is Everything’ at the Royal Vancouver Art Gallery, the Royal Ontario Museum and the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art; and ‘Bit Rot’ at the Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art in Rotterdam and Villa Stuck in Munich. In 2015 and 2016, Coupland was an artist-in-residence in the Paris Google Cultural Institute.
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