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Worst. Person. Ever.

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Beschreibung

Raymond Gunt likes to think of himself as a pretty decent guy he believes in helping his fellow man and all that other good stuff. Sure, he can be foulmouthed, occasionally misogynistic, and just generally rub people the wrong way through no fault of his own! So with all the positive energy he s creating,...

Beschreibung

Raymond Gunt likes to think of himself as a pretty decent guy he believes in helping his fellow man and all that other good stuff. Sure, he can be foulmouthed, occasionally misogynistic, and just generally rub people the wrong way through no fault of his own! So with all the positive energy he s creating, it s a little perplexing to consider the recent downward spiral his life has taken .
An unemployed B-unit cameraman, Gunt accepts his ex-wife s offer to shoot a Survivor-style reality show on an obscure island in the Pacific. Somehow, Gunt suffers multiple comas and unjust imprisonment, and is forced to reenact the Angry Dance from the movie Billy Elliott, among other tribulations and humiliations. Could the universe be trying to tell him something?

Rezension

"It is hard to describe, out of context, quite how funny Coupland s novel can be. A lot of its humour springs from the relentless hideousness of Gunt. And yet, increasingly, it is the very fact that Gunt in Voltairean fashion is the only character in Coupland s menagerie who can see the awfulness of the human apocalypse around him that makes the book so compelling. Coupland s eye for the strange, mesmerising wonder of modernity is being put, more than ever, to extremely dark use here. The fact that it is all so demented and so frequently, belly-achingly hilarious only makes that darkness all the more impressive. The Sunday Times
 
Provocative and entertaining. The Daily Mail
 
Riotous, frequently very funny. The Independent
 
Filthy and funny. TimeOut London
 
Clever bits of observational humour his best book in recent years. The Toronto Star
 
An entry a fun one in a personal, pop-cult canon of its own. Toronto Globe and Mail
[Raymond Gunt] is a fabulous monster, with nothing and no one safe from his vitriol. Raymond torments the obese, faces multiple incarcerations, makes leering advances at every woman crossing his path, and plays a role in a potentially globe-threatening nuclear event Coupland skewers a pop world s growing insensibilities, and his protagonist is a charming villain whom readers will likely root for, even as he s insulting them. Publisher s Weekly (starred)
Engaging, funny and a rocking good read Readers will identify with Ray Gunt in spite of themselves, taking pleasure in his crazy antics. BookPage

Produktdetails

Einband

Taschenbuch

Erscheinungsdatum

31.03.2015

Verlag Penguin US
Seitenzahl

320

Produktdetails

Einband

Taschenbuch

Erscheinungsdatum

31.03.2015

Verlag Penguin US
Seitenzahl

320

Maße (L/B/H)

19,5/12,8/2,7 cm

Gewicht

244 g

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-0-14-218193-5

Herstelleradresse

Libri GmbH
Europaallee 1
36244 Bad Hersfeld
DE

Email: gpsr@libri.de

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