 Stranger Than Fiction : True Stories
By Chuck Palahniuk
This collection from shock novelist Palahniuk is an eye-opening look at the raw material that goes into Palahniuk's fiction, as well as proof that the novelist's art is derived from keen observation and recording of details.
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Product Details
- Hardcover: 256 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.85 x 8.32 x 5.78
- Publisher: Doubleday; (June 15, 2004)
- ISBN: 0385504489
Book Description
Chuck Palahniuk's world has always been, well, different from yours and mine. The pieces that comprise Stranger than Fiction, his first nonfiction collection, prove just how different, in ways both highly entertaining and deeply unsettling. Included are 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 drivetrain installer by day, hospice volunteer driver by night; the really peculiar lives of submariners; the really violent world (and mangled ears) of college wrestlers; the underground world of iron-pumping anabolic-steroid gobblers; the immensely upsetting 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 our most flagrantly daring and original literary talents.
About the Author
Chuck Palahniuk's six novels are the bestselling Diary, Choke, Lullaby, and Fight Club—which was made into a film by director David Fincher—Survivor, and Invisible Monsters. He is also the author of a nonfiction profile of Portland, Fugitives and Refugees, published as part of the Crown Journeys series. He lives in Portland, Oregon.
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