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Stark, bizarre insights from a unique literary mind.
If you're drawn to the raw edges of life, where the odd, the dark, and the controversial dance together, then Chuck Palahniuk's "Non-Fiction" could intrigue you. These essays are windows into subcultures and experiences that most never encounter, all delivered with Palahniuk's unflinching honesty. It's a chance to walk through the more peculiar paths of human existence with a guide who's anything but ordinary.
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ISBN: 9780224063029
Authors:
Chuck Palahniuk
Publisher: Jonathan Cape
Date of Publication: 2004-08-05
Format: Paperback
Goodreads rating: 3.57
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Chuck Palahniuk's world has been, well, different from yours and mine. The pieces that comprise Nonfiction prove just how different, in ways both highly entertaining and deeply unsettling. Encounters with alternative culture heroes Marilyn Manson and Juliette Lewis; the peculiar wages of fame attendant on the big budget film production of the movie Fight Club; life as an assembly-line drive train installer by day, hospice volunteer driver by night; the really peculiar lives of submariners; the really violent world of college wrestlers; the underground world of anabolic steroid gobblers; the harrowing circumstances of his father's murder and the trial of his killer - each essay or vignette offers a unique facet of existence as lived in and/or observed by one of America's most flagrantly daring and original literary talents.
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Stark, bizarre insights from a unique literary mind.
If you're drawn to the raw edges of life, where the odd, the dark, and the controversial dance together, then Chuck Palahniuk's "Non-Fiction" could intrigue you. These essays are windows into subcultures and experiences that most never encounter, all delivered with Palahniuk's unflinching honesty. It's a chance to walk through the more peculiar paths of human existence with a guide who's anything but ordinary.
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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