Douglas Coupland - The Gum Thief / Glove Pond - signed slipcased 1st edn
Signed Limited Edition boxed set includes the first edition of THE GUM THIEF signed by Douglas Coupland and is cased together with a first edition GLOVE POND by Roger Thorpe, the protagonist of THE GUM THIEF. In excellent unread condition, slipcased and still in original publisher's shrinkwrap. Synopsis - Douglas Coupland's inventive novel-think Clerks meets Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?-is the story of an extraordinary epistolary relationship between Roger and Bethany, two very different, but strangely connected, "aisles associates" at Staples. Watch as their lives unfold alongside Roger's work-in-progress, the oddly titled Glove Pond. A raucous tale of four academics, two malfunctioning marriages, and one rotten dinner party, Roger's opus is a Cheever-style novella gone horribly wrong. But as key characters migrate into and out of its pages, Glove Pond becomes an anchor of Roger's unsettled-and unsettling-life.Coupland electrifies us on every page of this witty, wise, and unforgettable novel. Love, death, and eternal friendship can all transpire where we least expect them.and even after tragedy seems to have wiped your human slate clean, stories can slowly rebuild you
