The Gum Thief: A Novel

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by DOUGLAS COUPLAND | Literature & Fiction |
ISBN: 1596911069 Global Overview for this book
Registered by fracula of Calgary, Alberta Canada on 10/11/2010
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Journal Entry 1 by fracula from Calgary, Alberta Canada on Sunday, September 18, 2011
Two misfits find common ground and a unique, surreal friendship via unspoken words in Coupland's latest (after JPod), a fine return to form. In the two years since his wife's (nonfatal) cancer was diagnosed, Roger Thorpe has devolved into a dejected, hard-drinking, divorced father and the oldest employee by a fair margin at Staples. A frustrated novelist to boot, Roger considers himself lost, continually haunted by dreams of missed opportunities and a long ago car accident that claimed four friends.

His younger, disgruntled goth co-worker, Bethany Twain, one day discovers Roger's diary—filled with mock re-imaginings of her thoughts and feelings—in the break room. She lays down a supreme challenge for them both to write diary entries to each other, but neither is allowed to acknowledge the other around the store.

Through exchanged hopes and dreams, customer stories, world views and cautionary revelations (time speeds up in a terrifying manner in your mid-thirties), the pair become intimately acquainted before things unravel for both. Running parallel to the epistolary narrative are chapters from Roger's novel, Glove Pond, which begins having much in common with the larger narrative it's enclosed in. Coupland shines, the story is humorous, frenetic, focused and curiously affecting.

Journal Entry 2 by fracula at Calgary, Alberta Canada on Thursday, June 5, 2014
I loved this book! Will be saving in for the 2014 Canadian Release Challenge and will be seeking a release spot in a local Staples!

Journal Entry 3 by fracula at Staples Business Depot - Country Hills in Calgary, Alberta Canada on Saturday, June 28, 2014

Released 9 yrs ago (6/28/2014 UTC) at Staples Business Depot - Country Hills in Calgary, Alberta Canada

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Released for the 2014 Canada Release Challenge
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