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Author | Douglas Coupland |
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Language | English |
Genre | Novel |
Publisher | Random House of Canada |
Publication date | 2013 |
Publication place | Canada |
Media type | Print (hardback) |
ISBN | 978-0345813732 (first edition, hardback) |
Preceded by | Player One |
Worst. Person. Ever. is the fourteenth novel by Douglas Coupland, published in 2013. The novel is the story of Raymond Gunt, an offensive and shocking narrator, and his journey from London through Los Angeles to Kiribati, an island in the Pacific Ocean, where he is to work on a reality television show. The novel focuses on this character's direct and inflammatory reflections on the world around him and the characters he meets. In an interview with NPR, Coupland stated that the novel was written as an antidote to an "epidemic of earnestness", and that the book was motivated by the question, "Why not just go against a trend and write something that might damage a person's soul if they read it?"[1]