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 chuck
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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