Nonfiction [Hardcover]

Chuck Palahniuk (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 5, 2004

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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About the Author

Chuck Palahniuk is the author of Fight Club (made into a film by director David Fincher), Survivor, Invisible Monsters, Choke, Lullaby and Diary. He lives in Portland, Oregon.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 256 pages
• Publisher: Jonathan Cape (August 5, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0224063022
• ISBN-13: 978-0224063029
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.2 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.9 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #716,293 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Chuck Palahniuk's novels are the bestselling Fight Club, which was made into a film by director David Fincher, Diary, Lullaby, Survivor, Haunted, and Invisible Monsters. Portions of Choke have appeared in Playboy, and Palahniuk's nonfiction work has been published by Gear, Black Book, The Stranger, and the Los Angeles Times. He lives in the Pacific Northwest.

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Get to know the author, August 23, 2006

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Y. Smetannikov (Australia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Nonfiction (Hardcover)

If you liked Palaniuk's fiction, you will appreciate these stories too. Some journalistic, some very personal, they get you to know Palaniuk on more personal level. As if listening to him in a room.

Some stories - about combine fighting, for instance - are weird. Some - Boddhisatwas - touched some very sensitive nerves. Interviews are interesting, if nothing else. I enjoyed it thoroughly.

The last, "Personal" part is, well, personal. The author talks a lot about "Fight Club" in it. It is very interesting, funny and somewhat sad at times.

8 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Amusing, but not much else., December 16, 2005

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Nerd Alert "bookworm" (New York, NY USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Nonfiction (Hardcover)

This book is collection of short stories vividly describing the 'seedy underbellies' of many slices of Americana ~ wrestling, using steroids, counterculture festivals, etc etc. While the stories themselves ranged from poignant (wrestling) to boring (interview with Juliette Lewis and Marilyn Manson), they were all strung together by the author's very deliberate attempt to enlighten the reader. The authors almost constant name-dropping of Fight Club, Brad Pitt, and (strangely) himself got old, and most of the time were irrelevant to the story on the page. I'm probably on the jaded side of readers, but the descriptions and interviews that comprise the stories weren't as shocking, or enlightening, as the author likely intended them to be. If you are looking for a light, amusing read, this will satisfy your pleasures. However, I wouldn't expect to walk away with much more.

1 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Pure PALAHNIUK, January 5, 2006

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Colorado bookie "coloradobookie" - See all my reviews

This review is from: Nonfiction (Hardcover)

Any fan will appreciate this title.