Research Catalog

Title

Worst. Person. Ever. / Douglas Coupland.

Author

Coupland, Douglas

Publication

London : William Heinemann, 2013.

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Holdings

Details

Description

317 p.; 20 cm.

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. 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.

Subject

• Humorous stories
• Satire

Genre/Form

Humorous fiction

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

ISBN

• 9780434019908 (hbk.)
• 0434019909 (hbk.)
• 9781409023784 (ePub ebook)
• 1409023788 (ePub ebook)
• 9780434019915 (hbk)
• 0434019917 (hbk)

OCLC

855197578

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library