Highly Inappropriate Tales for Young People - Tapa dura

"In the future, if people are curious about what it was like to live in our times, in the early 21st century, they will do well to read Douglas Coupland." --Yann Martel, "What Is Stephen Harper Reading? "(blog) "I know I'm not alone in thinking that Douglas Coupland is one of our finest chroniclers of modern life. . . . Memo to the Custodians of CanLit: Big Ideas can be delivered with humour and wit." --"National Post"" ""Coupland is a great ironist of our time, perhaps without comparison in Canada. He has a talent for writing about reality in a deliciously unrealistic way, and a talent for concocting ingenious events that come from nowhere, yet are possessed of their own internal logic. . . . His satire is both merciless and amusing. A slacker version of Mordecai Richler, he has come to resemble the campier literary stars of the 1960s and '70s, like Richard Brautigan and Tom Robbins. He's a Voltaire without the rage, a Vonnegut without the big reach." --"Th

Seven pants-peeingly funny stories featuring seven evil characters you can't help but love: Douglas Coupland's stories are illustrated with dark charm by Graham Roumieu in a collaboration that brings together two of Canada's wittiest creators for the first time. Put your therapist on speed dial and read them with pleasure.

A cast of unlovable miscreants who unleash their dark, unruly and antisocial desires on every page: They are Donald, the Incredibly Hostile Juice Box; Kevin, the Hobo Minivan with Extremely Low Morals; Brandon, the Action Figure with Issues; Sandra, the Truly Dreadful Babysitter; Hans, the Weird Exchange Student;Cindy, the Terrible Role Model; and Mr. Fraser, the Undead Substitute Teacher.

A lot of laughs-of the evil, twisted kind: Definitely inappropriate for young people.