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Stranger Than Fiction - by Chuck Palahniuk (Paperback)

Stranger Than Fiction - by  Chuck Palahniuk (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Whether discussing his father's murder or encounters with cult figures like Marilyn Manson, each vignette in Palahniuk's first collection of nonfiction offers a unique glimpse into the life of a daring and original literary talent.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>Chuck Palahniuk's world has always been, well, different from yours and mine. In his first collection of nonfiction, Chuck Palahniuk brings us into this world, and gives us a glimpse of what inspires his fiction.At the Rock Creek Lodge Testicle Festival in Missoula, Montana, average people perform public sex acts on an outdoor stage. In a mansion once occupied by The Rolling Stones, Marilyn Manson reads his own Tarot cards and talks sweetly to his beautiful actress girlfriend. Across the country, men build their own full-size castles and rocketships that will send them into space. Palahniuk himself experiments with steroids, works on an assembly line by day and as a hospice volunteer by night, and experiences the brutal murder of his father by a white supremacist. With this new direction, Chuck Palahniuk has proven he can do anything.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>Full of wonderful moments...Palahniuk's voice is so distinctive and intimate--he writes as though he is recounting a great story to a close friend. --<i>Los Angeles Times</i></p><p>Step into Palahniuk's dark worldview and watch for what crawls out. These stories are true to him and no one else. --<i>The Oregonian</i></p><p>"One of the oddest and most oddly compelling collections to come along for some time." --<i>The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel</i></p><p>"In Chuck Palahniuk's world, the ride is fast, often disturbing, and there is never any holding back." --<i>The New Orleans Times-Picayune</i></p><p>"Eccentric, idiosyncratic, and often entertaining." --<i>The Onion</i></p><p>Priceless grace notes from an exceptionally droll and sharp-eyed observer. --<i>The New York Times</i></p><p>"Rarely does a collection of essays continually resonate with a main theme and accumulate a weight that would lead you to call it a great book. . . . This is a pretty great book." --<i>The Seattle Times</i></p><p>The book's lurid appeal rests largely on being let in on Palahniuk's secrets, the raw material for much of his fiction. . . . Acts that give spice to his novels are made more menacing when encountered in the real world. --<i>Black Book</i></p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>CHUCK PALAHNIUK is the author of fourteen novels--<i>Beautiful You, Doomed, Damned, Tell-All, Pygmy, Snuff, Rant, Haunted, Diary, Lullaby, Choke, Invisible Monsters, Survivor</i>, and <i>Fight Club</i>--which have sold more than five million copies altogether in the United States. He is also the author of <i>Fugitives and Refugees</i>, published as part of the Crown Journey Series, and the nonfiction collection<i> Stranger Than Fiction</i>. He lives in the Pacific Northwest. Visit him on the web at chuckpalahniuk.net.

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