Worst. Person. Ever. by Douglas Coupland
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 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.
Worst. Person. Ever. is a deeply unworthy book about a dreadful human being with absolutely no redeeming social value. Gunt, in the words of the author, 'is a living, walking, talking, hot steaming pile of pure id.' He's a B-unit cameraman who enters an amusing downward failure spiral that takes him from London to Los Angeles and then on to an obscure island in the Pacific where a major American TV network is shooting a Survivor-style reality show. Along the way, Gunt suffers multiple comas and unjust imprisonment, is forced to re-enact the ‘Angry Dance' from the movie Billy Elliot and finds himself at the centre of a nuclear war. We also meet Raymond's upwardly failing sidekick, Neal, as well as Raymond's ex-wife, Fiona, herself ‘an atomic bomb of pain'.
Even though he really puts the ‘anti' in anti-hero, you may find Raymond Gunt an oddly likeable character.
About the Author
Douglas Coupland was born on a NATO base in Germany in 1961. He is the author of the international bestsellers Generation X and JPod, and nine other novels, including The Gum Thief, Hey Nostradamus!, All Families Are Psychotic and Generation A, along with non-fiction works including a recent short biography of Marshall McLuhan. His work has been translated into thirty-five languages and published in most countries around the world. He is also a visual artist, a furniture and fashion designer and screenwriter. He lives and works in Vancouver.
Format: Paperback | 336 pages
Dimensions (cm): 19.7 x 13.0 x 2.1 | 245g
Publication Date: 01 Dec 2014
Publisher: The Random House Group Limited
Imprint: Windmill Books
Publication City/Country: London, United Kingdom
Language: English
Edition Number: 1
ISBN10: 0099537397
ISBN13: 9780099537397
Condition: Good
A book that has been read but is in good condition. Very minimal damage to the cover including very minor scuff marks along the edges, but no holes or tears. The majority of pages are undamaged with very minimal creasing but no tearing. No pencil underlining of text, no highlighting of text, no writing in margins. No missing pages.