The Gum Thief

Description

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.

Promotion info

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

Author description

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.