Worst. Person. Ever.

An outrageous comic riot, delivered as a tear-inducing funny and pitch-black farce ... For every laugh here, theres a haunting, echoing scream in the distance. The plot is unbridled romp ... It is hard to describe, out of context, quite how funny Couplands novel can be. * Sunday Times * Worst. Person. Ever. is very much a return to form. It had me laughing out loud on the bus to work. * Irish Times, Books of the Year * There are gloriously unquotable remarks and fantastically lurid images on every page. Gunts mind is a super-sewer in which it is a pleasure to swim. You cant help giggling, constantly. Worst. Person. Ever. may be a raging bonfire of inanities but it contains some of Couplands finest writing since Shampoo Planet. * Evening Standard * There are some clever plot twists and fine comedy set pieces. * Scotland on Sunday * A comic riot of a novel. * Sunday Times - Must Reads *

Douglas Coupland (pronounced KOHP-lend) (born 30 December 1961) is a Canadian writer, designer and visual artist. His first novel was the 1991 international bestseller Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture. Since then, Coupland has written twelve more novels, which have been published in most languages. He has written and performed for the Royal Shakespeare Company and is a columnist for the Financial Times. He is a frequent contributor to the New York Times, e-flux, Dis and Vice. In 2000, after a decade of generating web graphics, Coupland amplified his visual art production and has recently had two separate museum retrospectives: 'Everywhere Is Anywhere Is Anything Is Everything' at the Royal Vancouver Art Gallery, the Royal Ontario Museum and the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art; and 'Bit Rot' at the Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art in Rotterdam and Villa Stuck in Munich. In 2015 and 2016, Coupland was an artist-in-residence in the Paris Google Cultural Institute.