
”It's all rather flimsily thrown together, but the solidly-carpentered narratives of conventional fiction have never been Coupland's game … The mood of these monologues is generally dark, with failure, sickness, death and global apocalypse as the main themes.”
Citatet är hämtat från The Guardian som har en recension, skriven av en James Lasdun, som inte är överdrivet positiv i tonen:
”A … frictionlessness prevails in the story itself, which rehearses the fairly standard contemporary trope of a bunch of mismatched misfits reaching out to each other and coalescing into a sort of goofily supportive alternative family who write things like this to each other: "You have people in your life who care for you." It's hard to share in the warm fuzzy feeling, because the original pain and loss were never substantiated with much conviction”
Men, vem bryr sig om vad James Lasdun *tönt* tycker? Vi älskar Coupland bortom dåliga recensioner, gör vi inte? Jag ser i alla fall fram emot The Gum Theif, även om det säkert lär dröja flera år innan jag får tid att läsa den!
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