The Gum Thief

The Gum Thief is Canadian author Douglas Coupland's twelfth novel. It was published on September 25, 2007 (2007-09-25), by Random House Canada in Canada and Bloomsbury Publishing in the United States. An epistolary novel, The Gum Thief is written as a collection of journal entries, notes, and letters written by various characters. Among these are regular installments of the characters in Roger's novella, titled Glove Pond. A special boxed edition was also released including a special hardback edition signed by Coupland, as well as a hardback copy of the Glove Pond novella by "Roger Thorpe." The jacket for Glove Pond features a pull-quote written by Douglas Coupland.