The Gum Thief

Coupland has reached iconic status and so the paperback campaign for The Gum Thief will be aimed at his huge UK fanbase Coupland is a worldwide phenomenon, he writes a blog for the New York Times and has a lively YouTube page that promotes his novels at http://www.youtube.com/user/DougCoupland Previous paperbacks such as Microserfs and Generation X have been bestsellers

Explores identity and truth in the unexpectedly appropriate setting of an office-supply superstore.Roger is a middle-aged and divorced 'aisles associate' at a Staples outlet. His co-worker Bethany is facing fifty more years of shelving Post-it notes. Then Bethany discovers Roger's notebook and finds that he's writing diary entries pretending to be her - and weirdly, he's getting it right. Bethany and Roger strike up a secret correspondence, and as it unfolds so too do the characters of Roger's work-in-progress, Glove Pond, a Cheever-era novella gone horribly, horribly wrong.