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| Original Title: | The Gum Thief |
| ISBN: | 1596911069 (ISBN13: 9781596911062) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Bethany, Roger |
| Setting: | North Vancouver, British Columbia(Canada) |
Douglas Coupland
Hardcover | Pages: 275 pages Rating: 3.5 | 10056 Users | 717 Reviews
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| Title | : | The Gum Thief |
| Author | : | Douglas Coupland |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 275 pages |
| Published | : | October 2nd 2007 by Bloomsbury (first published 2007) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Cultural. Canada. Contemporary. Humor |
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The first and only story of love and looming apocalypse set in the aisles of an office supply superstore.
In Douglas Coupland's ingenious new novel--sort of a Clerks meets Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf--we meet Roger, a divorced, middle-aged "aisles associate" at Staples, condemned to restocking reams of 20-lb. bond paper for the rest of his life. And Roger's co-worker Bethany, in her early twenties and at the end of her Goth phase, who is looking at fifty more years of sorting the red pens from the blue in aisle 6.
One day, Bethany discovers Roger's notebook in the staff room. When she opens it up, she discovers that this old guy she's never considered as quite human is writing mock diary entries pretending to be her: and, spookily, he is getting her right.
These two retail workers then strike up an extraordinary epistolary relationship. Watch as their lives unfold alongside Roger's work-in-progress, the oddly titled Glove Pond, a Cheever-era novella gone horribly, horribly wrong. Through a complex layering of narratives, The Gum Thief reveals the comedy, loneliness, and strange comforts of contemporary life.
Coupland electrifies us on every page of this witty, wise, and unforgettable novel. Love, death and eternal friendship can all transpire where we least expect them …and even after tragedy seems to have wiped your human slate clean, stories can slowly rebuild you.
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Ratings: 3.5 From 10056 Users | 717 ReviewsWrite Up Out Of Books The Gum Thief
A quite ingenious little epistolary novel by Douglas Coupland set in the drudgery of a Staples store, and also contains a novel-within- a novel "Glove Pond".This unassuming book is a tour-de-force. Filled with stories-within-stories and other postmodern devices that should be annoying, the novel is eminently readable and surprising in its embrace of humanity and cynicism all at once.Without mythologizing the quotidian, i.e. making our scummy human life seem romantic, and without dosing the whole enterprise with irony, Coupland manages to make something at once depressing and redeeming. For the first time in ages, I actually stopped reading the book
Entertaining. A book within a book within a book🤪.
I became a fan of Douglas Coupland's writing after I checked out Generation X from the library when I was in high school. I've read a number of his books and his one, The Gum Thief is one of my favorites, along with Generation X and Life After God. Most Coupland novels are full of unrealistic plot twists that somehow bind the characters. This book is more straightforward and realistic in its storyline. The novel is told through letters and writing samples that the characters share. And while it
Struggle to readI struggled reading and understanding this book! It never made any sense! I would not recommend this book at all!
When are Otis & Co. going to implement half stars? Because I'd like to give this book four and a half stars.I loved this book. It's not often that a book makes me laugh out loud, and this book consistently made me laugh out loud. Peals of laughter. Giggles. Cackles, even. Im not exaggerating.Its also very sad, sweet, and affecting all at the same time. I love books wherein the characters ruminate. I get most of my own ruminating done in the shower, but these characters do it on paper in a
This is the story of Steve and Bethany, pen pals and coworkers at Staples. Even though they work togehter, they prefer to write letters to each other rather than talk face to face, and this letter-writing is the whole premise of the novel. Some of the letters are written by side characters, like Bethany's mother Dee Dee. The book also contains a couple of Bethany's writing exercises from a creative writing class, and excerpts from Steve's unpublished novel "Glove Pond". These were fun to read
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