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Worst. Person. Ever. Audiobook

by Douglas Coupland
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language: english
Publisher: Random House, October of 2013 ‧
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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.

Worst. Person. Ever.

by Douglas Coupland

Property Description
ISBN: 9781473500433
Publisher: Random House
Release Date: October of 2013
Language: English
Format: Audiobook
File Size B
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Categories: Audiobooks in English > Fiction > Romance
EAN: 9781473500433

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Douglas Coupland

Escritor canadiano nascido a 30 de Dezembro de 1961, em Baden-Sollingen, Alemanha, numa base militar da NATO. Estudou escultura no Emily Carr College of Art and Design em Vancouver e completou a sua formação em Milão (Itália) e em Sapporo (Japão), tendo chegado a receber dois Canadian National Award for Excellence in Industrial Design. Começou a escrever artigos para jornais e revistas em finais dos anos oitenta e em 1991 publicou Generation X (Geração X), o seu primeiro romance. Tanto este como Microserfs (Inforescravos, 1995) foram adoptados como manifestos de uma geração desiludida com o ritmo desumano do mundo do trabalho, o consumismo, a cultura de massas, a destruição do ambiente e a falta de sentido das suas vidas em geral. Para além destes dois romances, Coupland publicou Shampoo Planet (1992), Life After God (A Vida Depois de Deus, 1994), Polaroids From the Dead (Polaróides de Figuras Extintas, 1996), Girlfriend in a Coma (Coma Profundo, 1998), Lara's Book - Lara Croft and the Tomb Raider Phenomenon (1998) e Miss Wyoming (2000).

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