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Stranger Than Fiction

True Stories

By Chuck Palahniuk

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| Hardcover | 9780385504485

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From the bestselling author of Fight Club and Diary, a collection of essays and journalistic pieces that prove that real life has imagination beaten cold in the strangeness and wonder departments

Chuck Palahniuk’s world has always been, well, different from yoursContinue

From the bestselling author of Fight Club and Diary, a collection of essays and journalistic pieces that prove that real life has imagination beaten cold in the strangeness and wonder departments

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. 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 (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.

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  • Stranger Than Fiction, by Chuck Palahniuk

    Doubleday, 233 pp, $34.95, hardcover. Chuck Palahniuk, bad-boy author of bad-boy novels such as Fight Club and Choke , has a thing about control. He likes it. He likes the cauterized flash of the short sentence. He likes the zombie allegiance of the ... (read full critics)

    straight published on Sun, 29 Aug 2010

  • Bookreporter.com - STRANGER THAN FICTION: True Stories by Chuck Palahniuk

    STRANGER THAN FICTION: True Stories Chuck Palahniuk Doubleday Social Science/Popular Culture ISBN: 0385504489 A new Chuck Palahniuk novel usually promises biting satire, dark humor and tragic reality rolled into one fun and often compact package. So ... (read full critics)

    bookreporter published on Sun, 29 Aug 2010

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  • A good read, although not all of the stories are at the same level. The best ones manage to be entertaining, touching, and cruel at the same time (my favourite: "Frontiers", "The people can", "The lady").
    I liked Palahniuk's ironic style, and was surprised by his willingness to open totally to ... (continue)

    A good read, although not all of the stories are at the same level. The best ones manage to be entertaining, touching, and cruel at the same time (my favourite: "Frontiers", "The people can", "The lady").
    I liked Palahniuk's ironic style, and was surprised by his willingness to open totally to the reader.

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  • English Books
  • Hardcover 256 Pages
  • Edition: 1st
  • ISBN-10: 0385504489
  • ISBN-13: 9780385504485
  • Publisher: DoubleDay
  • Pub date: Jun 15, 2004
  • Dimensions: 1355 mm x 968 mm x 129 mm Just how big is that?
  • Also available as: Paperback, Audio CD and Audio Cassette
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