### 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 old
The Gum Thief
β Scribed by Douglas Coupland
- Book ID
- 111832470
- Publisher
- Random House Canada
- Year
- 2007
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 1 MB
- Edition
- 25. September 2007
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780747591887
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