Author:Douglas Coupland
A razor-sharp portrait of a morally bankrupt and gleefully wicked modern man, Worst. Person. Ever. is Douglas Coupland's gloriously filthy, side-splittingly funny and unforgettable novel.
Meet Raymond Gunt. A decent chap who tries to do the right thing. Or, to put it another way, the worst person ever: a foul-mouthed, misanthropic cameraman, trailing creditors, ex-wives and unhappy homeless people in his wake. Men dislike him, women flee from him.
Worst. Person. Ever. is a deeply unworthy book about a dreadful human being with absolutely no redeeming social value. 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 re-enact 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.
An outrageous comic riot, delivered as a tear-inducing funny and pitch-black farce ... For every laugh here, there’s a haunting, echoing scream in the distance. The plot is unbridled romp ... It is hard to describe, out of context, quite how funny Coupland’s novel can be.
—— Sunday TimesWorst. Person. Ever. is very much a return to form. It had me laughing out loud on the bus to work.
—— Irish Times, Books of the YearThere 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. may be a raging bonfire of inanities but it contains some of Coupland’s finest writing since Shampoo Planet.
—— Evening StandardThere are some clever plot twists and fine comedy set pieces.
—— Scotland on SundayA comic riot of a novel.
—— Sunday Times - Must ReadsWorst. Person. Ever. succeeds by virtue of its verbal energy, the brio of its invention, the snappiness with which successive gags and ever more appalling atrocities are piled on.
—— Financial TimesCoupland has penned a bitterly funny tale of our time and created one of the grossest characters to deliver it.
—— SportWorst. Person. Ever., challenges the present-day with excess, satire, and biting critique
—— Dazed DigitalIt's a book of wonderful purple phases...restless, epic, allusive
—— ScotsmanPraise on Devil on the Cross:
'This novel will be regarded as one of the historic staging posts of African Fiction. Ngugi is the most celebrated of African novelists. What he offers is nothing less than a new direction for African writing.
Praise on Petals of Blood
Ambitious, caustic and impassioned
A mind-blowing political statement, an anguished cry of despair . . . a bomshell
—— The Weekly ReviewThe definitive African book of the twentieth century.
—— Moses Isegawa, author of Abyssinian Chronicles and Snakepit
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