Worst. Person. Ever

**Douglas Coupland's gloriously filthy, side-splittingly funny and unforgettable new novel, his first full-length work of fiction in four years.
Worst. Person. Ever. is a deeply unworthy book about a dreadful human being with absolutely no redeeming social value. Raymond Gunt, in the words of the author, “is a living, walking, talking, hot steaming pile of pure id.” He's a B-unit cameraman who enters an amusing downward failure spiral that takes him from London to Los Angeles and then on to an obscure island in the Pacific where a major American TV network is shooting a Survivor-style reality show. Along the way, Gunt suffers multiple comas and unjust imprisonment, is forced to reenact the “Angry Dance” from the movie Billy Elliot and finds himself at the centre of a nuclear war. We also meet Raymond's upwardly failing sidekick, Neal, as well as Raymond's ex-wife, Fiona, herself “an atomic bomb of pain.”
Even though he really puts the “anti” in anti-hero, you may find Raymond Gunt an oddly likeable character.
Review“There are gloriously unquotable remarks and fantastically lurid images on every page. Gunt's mind is a super-sewer in which it is a pleasure to swim. You can't help giggling, constantly. Worst. Person. Ever maybe a raging bonfire of inanities but it contains some of Coupland's finest writing since Shampoo Planet.” Evening Standard “Douglas Coupland has surely reserved his place at the top table of North American fiction.” Independent on Sunday “He is one of the most popular serious writers of our time.” — Aravind Adiga “He is a brilliant social commentator and a wit of our times.” TLS “In the future, if people are curious about what it was like to live in our times, they will do well to read Douglas Coupland.” — Yann Martel
About the AuthorDouglas Coupland was born on December 30, 1961, on a Canadian Armed Forces base in Baden-Sollingen, (West) Germany. He has a degree in Japanese business science and in sculpture. He grew up and lives in Vancouver, British Columbia. Coupland's previous books are Generation X (the origin of the popular phrase), Microserfs, Shampoo Planet, Polaroids From the Dead, Life After God, and Girlfriend in a Coma.