num_pages: 317
description: A razor-sharp portrait of a morally bankrupt and gleefully wicked modern man Worst. Person. Ever. is Douglas Coupland's gloriously filthy side-splittingly funny and unforgettable novel.Meet Raymond Gunt. A decent chap who tries to do the right thing. Or to put it another way the worst person ever: a foul-mouthed misanthropic cameraman trailing creditors ex-wives and unhappy homeless people in his wake. Men dislike him women flee from him.Worst. Person. Ever. is a deeply unworthy book about a dreadful human being with absolutely no redeeming social value. Gunt in the words of the author is a living walking talking hot steaming pile of pure id. He's a B-unit cameraman who enters an amusing downward failure spiral that takes him from London to Los Angeles and then on to an obscure island in the Pacific where a major American TV network is shooting a Survivor-style reality show. Along the way Gunt suffers multiple comas and unjust imprisonment is forced to re-enact the Angry Dance from the movie Billy Elliot and finds himself at the centre of a nuclear war. We also meet Raymond's upwardly failing sidekick Neal as well as Raymond's ex-wife Fiona herself an atomic bomb of pain.Even though he really puts the anti in anti-hero you may find Raymond Gunt an oddly likeable character.
language: English
title: Worst. Person. Ever.
publisher: William Heinemann