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guardian.co.uk published on Fri, 24 Sep 2010
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The Gum Thief
Working at Staples, among the tons of Post-it notes and ballpoint pens, is not, if Coupland is to be believed, that much fun. Tired of their neon-lit, customer-dodging lives of frustration, middle-aged alcoholic Roger and pensive young goth Bethany f ... (read full critics)
guardian.co.uk published on Fri, 24 Sep 2010
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Ah, a novel in the epistolary tradition. It's been a while since I've read one of these, mainly because nowadays no one really writes letters anymore. Also, anyone who attempts to write a book based on email chains or God forbid SMS text messages brimming with txtspk shorthand, acronyms, ridiculous ... (continue)
Danelectrico said on Dec 7, 2007 | Add your feedback
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The idea of writing a definitely DC novel as an epistolary novel where a hard-boiled 50s-alike novel is being written could have lead to a boooring bok - and it is not. This book tracks the lives of modern-day Staples employees but has always a tension to go somewhere else; the characters are lively ... (continue)
Lenz said on Jan 26, 2008 | Add your feedback
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The Gum Thief
By all accounts - first and foremost his own - Roger is a loser: middle-aged, overweight, mean, alcoholic, messily divorced. He records his private misery, along with the drafts of his novel Glove Pond (imagine Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton in ... (read full critics)