The Gum Thief: A Novel
 

The Gum Thief: A Novel

by Douglas Coupland



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... (read more)

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(Reprinted from the Chicago Center for Literature and Photography [cclapcenter.com]. I am the original author of this essay, as well as the owner of CCLaP; it is not being reprinted here illegally.)

Like many writers of critical reviews, I too sometimes think about the idea of one day penning an entire book-long series of essays about a particular artist -- and of all the artists in history that now exist, the one I'm perhaps most qualified at this point to write an entire critical...

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gena b
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I couldn't finish this book. I think because when I started reading it, I was tired of watching reality TV shows only to find that the writing style of this book is just like reality TV (e.g. each chapter written from one of the character's point of view).

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