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Stranger Than Fiction : True Stories - Chuck Palahniuk

Stranger Than Fiction

True Stories

By: Chuck Palahniuk

Paperback | 10 May 2005

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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.
Industry Reviews

"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." --Los Angeles Times

"Step into Palahniuk's dark worldview and watch for what crawls out. These stories are true to him and no one else." --The Oregonian

"One of the oddest and most oddly compelling collections to come along for some time." --The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

"In Chuck Palahniuk's world, the ride is fast, often disturbing, and there is never any holding back." --The New Orleans Times-Picayune

"Eccentric, idiosyncratic, and often entertaining." --The Onion

"Priceless grace notes from an exceptionally droll and sharp-eyed observer." --The New York Times

"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." --The Seattle Times

"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." --Black Book

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