The Gum Thief

The Gum Thief

by Douglas Coupland (Author)

Synopsis

Roger is a middle-aged and divorced 'aisles associate' at a Staples outlet. His co-worker Bethany is facing fifty more years of shelving Post-it notes. Then Bethany discovers Roger's notebook and finds that he's writing diary entries pretending to be her - and weirdly, he's getting it right. Bethany and Roger strike up a secret correspondence, and as it unfolds so too do the characters of Roger's work-in-progress, Glove Pond, a Cheever-era novella gone horribly, horribly wrong.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 288
Edition: UK ed.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: 01 Sep 2008

ISBN 10: 0747593825
ISBN 13: 9780747593829
Book Overview: Coupland has reached iconic status and so the paperback campaign for The Gum Thief will be aimed at his huge UK fanbase Coupland is a worldwide phenomenon, he writes a blog for the New York Times and has a lively YouTube page that promotes his novels at http://www.youtube.com/user/DougCoupland Previous paperbacks such as Microserfs and Generation X have been bestsellers

Media Reviews
'Funny, touching and immensely enjoyable' Daily Express 'Classic Coupland' Independent 'A tender and hopeful story that shows how, with friendship and the occasional little act of rebellion, there can still be laughter after tragedy' Daily Mail 'He is a brilliant social commentator and a wit for our time' TLS
Author Bio
Douglas Coupland is a novelist who also works in visual arts and theatre. His novels include Eleanor Rigby, Generation X, All Families Are Psychotic, Hey Nostradamus! and JPod. He lives and works in Vancouver, Canada.