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Douglas Coupland, Graham Roumieu
ISBN: 9780434021598
Format: Hardback
Publisher:Cornerstone
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Offers 7 funny stories featuring seven evil characters such as: Donald, the Incredibly Hostile Juice Box; Kevin, the Hobo Minivan with Extremely Low Morals; Brandon, the Action Figure with Issues; Sandra, the Truly Dreadful Babysitter; Hans, the Weird Exchange Student; Cindy, the Terrible Role Model; and, Mr Fraser, the Undead Substitute Teacher.
Seven pants-peeingly funny stories featuring seven evil characters you can't help but love: Douglas Coupland's stories are illustrated with dark charm by Graham Roumieu in a collaboration that brings together two of Canada's wittiest creators for the first time. Put your therapist on speed dial and read them with pleasure. A cast of unlovable miscreants who unleash their dark, unruly and antisocial desires on every page: they are Donald, the Incredibly Hostile Juice Box; Kevin, the Hobo Minivan with Extremely Low Morals; Brandon, the Action Figure with Issues; Sandra, the Truly Dreadful Babysitter; Hans, the Weird Exchange Student; Cindy, the Terrible Role Model; and, Mr. Fraser, the Undead Substitute Teacher. A lot of laughs - of the evil, twisted kind - this title is definitely inappropriate for young people.
| ISBN | 0434021598 | | Pages | 144 | | ISBN13 | 9780434021598
(What's this?) | | Weight (grammes) | 350 | | Publisher | Cornerstone | | Published in | London | | Imprint | William Heinemann Ltd | | Height (mm) | 218 | | Format | Hardback | | Width (mm) | 149 | | Publication date | 03 Nov 2011 | | Spine width (mm) | 17 | | DEWEY | 813.6 | | Academic level | General | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | |
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"In the future, if people are curious about what it was like to live in our times, in the early 21st century, they will do well to read Douglas Coupland." --Yann Martel, "What Is Stephen Harper Reading? "(blog) "I know I'm not alone in thinking that Douglas Coupland is one of our finest chroniclers of modern life. . . . Memo to the Custodians of CanLit: Big Ideas can be delivered with humour and wit." --"National Post"" ""Coupland is a great ironist of our time, perhaps without comparison in Canada. He has a talent for writing about reality in a deliciously unrealistic way, and a talent for concocting ingenious events that come from nowhere, yet are possessed of their own internal logic. . . . His satire is both merciless and amusing. A slacker version of Mordecai Richler, he has come to resemble the campier literary stars of the 1960s and '70s, like Richard Brautigan and Tom Robbins. He's a Voltaire without the rage, a Vonnegut without the big reach." --"Th  Be the first to write a customer review
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